Doctor of emergency medicine, doctor of the field emergency medical team of the Poltava Regional Center of Emergency Medical Care and Disaster Medicine. Works at emergency medical aid station No. 2 in Kremenchuk
It's an experience you never want to have.In February, I finished my internship in Kharkiv, so hostilities caught me there. But at the first opportunity, I left Kharkiv to go back to Kremenchuk.I got a job as a doctor at the local emergency medical center. But even with experience of working in an ambulance, working on calls after explosions was unspeakably scary.
The first happened on April 24. Three medical teams left first, then paramedics joined us. Aid was provided to the wounded in the bunker, because there was still a risk of a second attack. After the alarm ended , wounded were taken to the hospital.But one of them was very severe, and we started infusion therapy right there, in the shelter, because there was arterial bleeding. I thought there was nothing worse than seeing the consequences of the explosion and the wounded with explosive injuries. But then there was a rocket attack on Amstor shopping center.
When we arrived at the sorting area, the doctor gave us two injured girls: "yellow" and «red".This is how the level of injury severity is determined. We got them inside the car, stabilized them and took them to the hospital. It was necessary to return quickly, because no one knew how many wounded people remained in the shopping center.
All these injuries were explosive, all of them had a concussion, shrapnel wounds, burns. They acted according to the protocols of the Ministry of Health specially developed after February 24, and interacted with other services: the police, the State Emergency Service, the Teroborona. On that terrible day, 15 ambulance crews were working, and all day long they were traveling to the hospital and back, taking away the wounded and returning for new ones.
And that man, and two girls and others. The scary thing is that no one knows how many more explosions there will be. And no matter how harmoniously we work, this situation is still stressful. The very fact that these are explosions, rockets, and shrapnel injuries is what keeps us in suspense. But we take it easy, because this is our job. There is such an experience because of the times we live in.
