Ceiling collapsed after rocket hit: doctors save life of 14-year-old boy from Lyman
Mykhailo Zahorodnii journalist with UP. Zhyttia
Doctors from Dnipro and Lviv have saved the life of 14-year-old Vlad from Lyman. The ceiling of the house the boy was living in collapsed on him after Russian attacks.
At the beginning of the full-scale war, the boy and his mother, Yulia, moved to the village of Zarichne in Donetsk Oblast to be with his grandmother, said the First Medical Association of Lviv.
However, on 8 October, a rocket hit their house. Only the boy was in the room at the time of the explosion, while his mother was in the garden and was not injured.
14-year-old Vlad was drawing when the ceiling collapsed on him.
The Ukrainian military helped to pull the boy out from under the rubble and he was immediately taken to a hospital in the city of Ozerne, and from there on to Kramatorsk and Dnipro in one day.
Vlad had shrapnel wounds to the small and large intestine, complicated by bleeding and spinal injuries. The child cannot walk or eat on his own because of the injuries.
In Dnipro, he underwent surgery to remove part of the affected intestine, and doctors performed a colostomy with a small remaining area of the intestine.
Doctors were thus able to avoid complications with peritonitis – acute purulent inflammation of the abdominal cavity, which often causes death.
Doctors also treated the injuries to the spine, in which there are still fragments of shrapnel.
In Lviv, at the St Nicholas Hospital, the boy’s condition was stabilised, and he is now waiting to be transported to Norway for treatment.
"In the ward, Vlad is constantly trying to make his mother laugh and dreams of getting back to football again. But most of all, he wants to see his grandmother, who is staying near Lyman," said the hospital.
He still has to undergo complex surgeries to restore intestinal permeability and remove fragments from the spinal cord and abdominal cavity.
After that, Vlad will undergo rehabilitation for at least six months.
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