The elderly need care and attention even when they are healthy. Vira, at the age of 84, had few happy moments. It's hard to be happy when you are a bedridden person with a broken femoral neck after a stroke.
It is much worse if you cannot cope in a frontline city, where daily shelling prevents you from resting for a few hours, and the medical staff of local hospitals is overwhelmed with helping seriously wounded soldiers. An elderly person can only hope for a miracle. That's what happened to Vira, and PAL-UA specialists joined the case.
After receiving the request for evacuation, the dispatcher realized that a difficult and long flight was ahead. The elderly woman had suffered a stroke and was in a non-walking condition, with a broken femoral neck to complement her clinical picture. With a bone fracture, transportation of the patient becomes much more complicated, and when the distance of the route is 400 kilometers, evacuation becomes quite painstaking and unpredictable.
The PAL-UA ambulance arrived at the apartment building. The evacuation team worked quickly and professionally. Transporting a bedridden woman with the consequences of a stroke and a broken femoral neck up the narrow stairs of a high-rise building is a painstaking and responsible task, and this is just the beginning.
The task involves overcoming a route of more than four hundred kilometers, which is the distance between the frontline city of Kherson and the relatively safe Poltava region. In Kremenchuk, the woman is waiting for her granddaughter and the opportunity to receive professional medical care in a hospital.
After placing the medical stretcher with the patient in the car, the rescue team took their usual places. The starter started, the engine responded loudly, the driver shifted speed and released the clutch, and the ambulance slowly moved along the apartment building. Half an hour earlier, a sick elderly woman had been waiting for help in this very building. It's hard to imagine the feelings of a person who leaves their home where they have spent almost all their lives. The war left no choice for Vira and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians living in the areas of active hostilities.
Poltava region met Kherson rescuers in the evening twilight. The driver of the car, guided by the navigator, was confidently heading to the final destination. The hospital located almost in the center of the city was waiting for the arrival of the patient from Kherson. Vira's granddaughter stood outside the reception area with wet eyes. Local medical workers had professionally organized the meeting of the severely ill patient.
It was night in Kremenchuk when the ambulance with the PAL-UA evacuation crew set off in the direction of Kherson. The driver, exhausted from the long trip, held the steering wheel tightly. The vehicle was in a hurry to return to the base. None of the crew complained about fatigue, because they knew that sick and helpless residents of the frontline region were waiting for help. Each member of the team realized that the lives of sick elderly people or wounded soldiers waiting for help depended on them.
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