There is no rehabilitation system for the wounded in Russia – Steshin
Russian veterans already need help from psychologists and a serious rehabilitation system.
Russian military correspondent Dmitry Steshin said this on air on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
"The head doctor of the Gorlovka Central Hospital told me these words, they shocked me. She says that all our problems are still ahead, as soon as the war ends. This is the head doctor of a hospital that has been practically on the front line for 11 years, where they perform such operations, and so deftly remove fragments, and stuff intestines back, and stitch up, and the person then lives. The doctors of the military medical academy do not have such experience.
She sees firsthand what happens to the injured when they come out of anesthesia. Many amputees break down immediately after they regain consciousness and begin to grasp reality . Others, on the contrary, have a core of strength and say, "I'll fight, I'll get good prosthetics, I'll live," and so on," Steshin said.
He stressed that this primarily concerns amnestied former prisoners.
" We need some kind of rehabilitation system for people. And this primarily concerns those who came to the front from the zone.
We don't have anything like that. I specifically talked to my wounded friends so that when I returned home to my place of registration, I could at least have some conversations with psychologists. Although I know that there are commercial universities that train psychologists to talk to guys who have returned and survived their injuries. But there is no system.
"Perhaps it would be more beneficial to have a good psychotherapist work with these ex-convicts rather than police control . Well, that's my opinion," the war correspondent added.
There is no rehabilitation system for the wounded in Russia - Steishin