A family physician is back home in San Francisco after traveling to Ukraine to offer his help.
He said he faced a week of air raids, dangerous conditions and described the experience as life-altering.Dr. Eduardo Dolhun said he met a lot of great people during his trip.Still, he's already thinking about going back.He went on a mission to the war-torn country to provide medical help and supplies. .
"Ukraine is at the front line of democracy and I'm a doctor and a disaster medicine specialist, so it made complete sense for me to go. I couldn't stay here and do nothing," Dolhun said he's half Ukrainian on his mother's side but had never visited the country before. .He said he met people there who helped him cross the border into Ukraine and connected him with Dr. Oksana Andreikiv who is working on the front lines.
At a military hospital in Lviv, Dolhun gave the doctor medical supplies and surgical tools. He said the hospital where Dr. Andreikiv works has been severely damaged.Dolhun said he wasn't able to get to the front lines to provide medical care himself as he had planned.I've been everywhere doing disaster medicine for 12 years. This was the scariest I've ever experienced," said Dolhun.
On his journey back home to the U.S., he saw Ukrainians singing their national anthem in Poland, the same people he met when he first arrived. Among them -a 16-year-old girl who asked him to sell her artwork in the U.S. to raise money to help Ukrainian forces."You get the sense that you have to do something. Life can't go on as usual anymoreHe said his trip and the supplies are funded by his own money, his nonprofit Doctors Outreach, and donations from his patients here in the Bay Area.
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