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Rickard Brånemark is currently visiting Kyiv, Ukraine, to treat wounded soldiers, to train Ukrainian orthopaedic surgeons in advanced amputee care and to support the build-up of expanded trauma healthcare. The need for amputee care has increased rapidly since the Russian invasion. At least 20,000 soldiers have lost extremities and are in need of prostheses at a time when the healthcare system is under vast pressure.

The surgical training sessions are followed by a Workshop on War-Related Amputee Care. The workshop is supported by: Center for Complex Endoprosthetics, Osseointegration and Bionics, the Mirum Clinic, Kyiv, Ukraine; The Ministry of Health of Ukraine; The Medical Forces Command of Ukraine; The Department of Traumatology and Orthopedics of Bogomolets National Medical University; State University Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; The Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine; Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine; and Integrum, Sweden.

The workshop is open for journalists to attend.