“Indestructible” – a national rehabilitation center will be built in Lviv/Collage of Channel 24
Today, May 24th, marks 3 months since the start of Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine. Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi summed up this period and shared his plans for the near future.
5 million migrants passed through Lviv
He noted that since the beginning of the war on February 24, 5 million Ukrainians have passed through Lviv, forced to flee from the Russian aggressor. Among them are those who remained in the city and those for whom Lviv became an intermediate point and a temporary stopover.
According to Sadovoy, residents of the Kyiv and Kharkov regions, who were forced to stay in Lviv, began to return home over the past month. But residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions continue to arrive on evacuation trains. Currently, about 150,000 IDPs live in Lviv.
200 institutions in Lviv are still shelters for those who left their parental home. In addition, 3 modular towns are already operating, where more than 1000 people can live.
A national rehabilitation center will be built in Lviv
The head of the city noted that more than 1,000 patients from hot spots are now being treated in Lviv hospitals. Among them there are people with mine-explosive injuries left without limbs. Often patients do not have relatives and friends who could take care of them.
In cooperation with foreign clinics, we send the wounded for treatment abroad. But these resources are also limited. Our people should stay and undergo rehabilitation here, in Ukraine, – said Andriy Sadovyy.
That is why a large project “Invincible” is being initiated in Lviv, within the framework of which a national rehabilitation center will be built. Work on it has been going on for more than a month. The local authorities have set themselves the task of creating a center that has no analogues in the world, and therefore is looking for partners and asking for high-quality expertise.
It is planned that the center will do prosthetics, carry out rehabilitation and socialization, as well as provide psychological support, which is now so necessary for a huge number of Ukrainians.
As the mayor noted, “Indestructible” is a large crowdfunding project. It will officially kick off on June 10 and will start with a big conference of partners. Foundations and embassies that have already agreed to cooperate will take part in it.
