Six freed from Russian captivity Guardsmen have serious injuries

VАLENTYNA ROMANENKO –TUESDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 2022, 17:49 

Six National Guardsmen, out of 118 freed in the latest prisoner swap with the Russians, have serious injuries that require long-term treatment and rehabilitation. 

Source: Colonel of Medical Service Denys Trehub, chief of Medical Directorate of the National Guard of Ukraine, cited by the press service of the National Guard of Ukraine

Details: According to Denys Trehub, out of 118 National Guardsmen, freed from Russian captivity on 21 September, six service members have complications and require long-term and complex treatment. 

Those are the consequences of receiving mine-explosive injuries, acubarotrauma, and fractures of limbs.

The rest of freed National Guardsmen have diagnoses and conditions, caused by malnutrition: protein-energy malnutrition (PEM), myopathy, and neuropathy. 

During the stage of early rehabilitation, servicemembers freed from captivity are receiving initial medical and psychological assistance. 

Some of them [freed soldiers - ed.] are sent to medical rehabilitation centres that are in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine network. Military physician boards are organised in order to examine health conditions and determine diagnoses.

It has been reported that in cases where it’s necessary, liberated National Guardsmen will be treated abroad; such mechanisms also exist within the National Guard.

At the same time, Ruslan Muzychuk, a spokesperson for the National Guard of Ukraine, stated in his comment to Ukrainska Pravda that the state had fully covered the cost of soldiers’ rehabilitation. He additionally pointed out that Ukrainian doctors who have been engaged with the treatment of service members during the past eight years of the war in particular, have acquired extensive experience of treating such injuries and trauma at a high level. 

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