We continue our meetings with the team of the Rehabilitation Medicine Center of the Poltava Regional Clinical Hospital named after M.V. Sklifosovsky.
Tetyana Rudas, an assistant physiotherapist, is in the room with the patient.
- Hello there! Please tell us how your treatment is going?
- My name is Kateryna, I was admitted to the center a week ago after a hernia operation. The disease first manifested itself a year ago when my leg suddenly gave out and I fell. I had a severe inflammation of the skull, which I treated on an outpatient basis, then there was a second exacerbation, then a third.
I have a sedentary job and used to go to the gym every day after work. But after severe stress, my body failed and I had to undergo surgery. Thank you for the center, because when you are sick you feel insecure and don't know what to do. Now my condition is improving thanks to daily training on the simulators under the watchful eye of the Center's staff. I thank all the staff for their work!
- Mrs. Tetyana! How do you feel when you go to work at the center every day?
- I have been working here since the first day, I have been working in medicine since 1994. I have been working in rehabilitation since 2007.
I love my job. And I want to help. I started working in children's rehabilitation. I helped children with cerebral palsy and organic lesions of the nervous system. Then I moved to the Center for Rehabilitation Medicine.
I want to help people. I have a great desire to help both military and civilian people, because nowadays the patients are younger - people are being admitted with strokes at the age of 35.
I want people to live a full life and not be labeled as "disabled," I want to get them back on their feet as much as possible. But we assume and God decides and we do our best. We are helped by the patient's desire and commitment to recovery.
I would like to note that there have been many improvements over the last period - the authorities are helping us a lot and we are receiving a lot of new wonderful equipment and devices as help from our foreign friends. We are very grateful to the staff and patients for this, because now rehabilitation is more effective and efficient.
We have a wonderful, close-knit team in which it is a pleasure to work and a pleasure to go to work.
There are a few wishes that the whole team has in common: victory and peace. And then we would like to make some repairs, improve the conditions of stay, enlarge the halls a little bit, because the building dates back to Sklifosovsky's time, but we understand that it is a war and this may not be the right time. But we hope that when the war is over, the department will see a significant improvement. After all, many countries are already starting to help rebuild Ukraine.
- I wish the patients of the rehabilitation center a speedy recovery! I thank the staff of the center for their work and for preserving the health of Ukrainians.
The project “Hospital Partnerships - Partners Strengthen Health” is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) https://www.bmz.de/en within the framework of the grant program “Support for Hospital Partnerships” https://hospitalpartnerships.org/...//www.bmz.de/en Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) https://www.giz.de/en/html/index.html
Vitaliy Shevchenko, Project Coordinator
