The Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to work with British charities to rehabilitate defenders and defenders who have suffered visual injuries
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Kateryna Pavlichenko, together with colleagues from the Ministry of Veterans, held a working meeting today, June 24, with representatives of British charitable organizations that intend to contribute to the treatment and rehabilitation of Ukrainian defenders with visual injuries.
Kateryna Pavlichenko expressed gratitude to the British, both government officials and the public sector, for the support of the Ukrainian people in confronting the enemy.
“Thank you to the UK Government and non-profit private companies for helping Ukraine in wartime. And also for your intention to help the units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whose employees today are directly involved in the confrontation of armed aggression and the elimination of its consequences in the de-occupied territories,” the Deputy Minister noted.
She said that since the large-scale military invasion of the Russian Federation, more than 4 thousand employees of the units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs suffered injuries of varying severity. And also about the measures and needs of departmental medical institutions that take care of the issues of treatment and rehabilitation of the injured.
In turn, representatives of the British delegation assured that they are ready to respond to the requests of Ukraine and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in particular, regarding the treatment of defenders who have received injuries of the organs of vision and rehabilitation in case of loss of vision due to injury. It was also about the possibility of supplying protective anti-ballistic glasses.
The parties discussed further interaction, in particular, in the area of launching a separate rehabilitation program for defenders and defenders with injuries of the organs of vision. The British partners voiced the appropriateness of an individual approach, taking into account the specifics of each case, and therefore carrying out treatment and rehabilitation either in Ukraine or abroad.
In addition, the British delegation visited the outpatient ophthalmology department in the central polyclinic of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and examined the operating room. At the same time, the parties discussed the needs of another ophthalmology department, which is currently under construction, and the need for special medical equipment for this department.
Communications Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Photo by Oleg Suprun
