For the first time since the beginning of the full-scale Russian aggression, Riga Eastern Clinical University Hospital (RAKUS) accepted wounded Ukrainians for treatment.

Ukrinform correspondents report that Latvia admitted 21 seriously wounded Ukrainians from the war zone.

Ukrainian patients spent 18 hours on the road. They were immediately sent to the RAKUS Clinic of Emergency Medicine and Reception of Patients.

There, the wounded were met by a specially established multidisciplinary medical team.

The patients underwent a comprehensive medical examination, which included diagnostic and laboratory tests.

According to Oleksiy Vyshniakov, Head of the Clinic of Emergency Medicine and Reception of Patients, the nature of the injuries is extremely complex, requiring surgical reconstruction of nerves and soft tissues.

Accordingly, a lot of work will be required from the rehabilitation specialists to restore the lost functions of the limbs. Some patients will need external prostheses.

Two of those brought in were immediately transferred to other institutions – to the Hospital of Traumatology and Orthopedics and to the National Rehabilitation Center “Vaivari”.

Ukrainians will be treated in RAKUS hospitals – Traumatology and Orthopedics Clinic, General and Emergency Surgery Clinic, Neurology and Neurosurgery Clinic, where the leading Latvian microsurgeons perform complex operations.

They will also be treated in the rehabilitation clinic, the surgical infection clinic, and the gerontology department.

Anda Nulle, Head of the Board of “Vaivari,” noted that their rehabilitation center will be ready to help everyone who needs it. In addition, prostheses will be selected, and the patients will be taught to walk using them.

Andris Vikmanis, Head of RAKUS Traumatology and Orthopedics Clinic, shared that most of the arrived patients are young people with injuries received as a result of shelling or explosions. According to him, this is the first case of RAKUS hospitalizing victims from a war zone.