A Ukrainian doctor who was forced to treat open-heart surgery patients in a bomb shelter last year says he's grateful for the assistance his country has received from Canada.
A Ukrainian doctor who was forced to treat open-heart surgery patients in a bomb shelter last year says he's grateful for theBut Dr. Igor Mokryk, the head of cardiac surgery at the Heart Institute of Kyiv, says the best medicine would be to have Canada's backing on Ukraine joining NATO.
"This is the time at least to tell Ukraine that you are part of NATO. We have this terrible war already but we know we will win. But absolutely we do not want to have another war with Russia." The Heart Institute received 30 boxes of personal protective equipment, dressings, catheters, syringes, surgical gowns and defibrillator electrodes from the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary last November.
Supplies from several countries are still coming in. There were pallets of unopened supplies in the hospital's hallways.
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