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Prosthesis Center Berlin-Kyiv

Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have already lost arms and legs, and the number continues to rise with each passing day of war. Many must wait months for a prosthesis, and the quality of prosthetic care in Ukraine is often far from satisfactory.

To provide the best possible rehabilitation and reintegration into life for war amputees, significantly more prosthetic workshops and experts are needed in the country. In particular, Kyiv has long lacked a modern prosthetics center capable of treating the many amputation injuries locally.

This is why Life Bridge Ukraine, in close cooperation with the Berlin Senate, is supporting the Kyiv city administration in establishing the first municipal prosthetics center. The initiative “Prosthetics Center Berlin-Kyiv” is a project within the framework of the Berlin-Kyiv city partnership.

The goal is to restore a high level of mobility to the city’s war-injured citizens. This requires solid craftsmanship in prosthetic care. Therefore, Life Bridge Ukraine is not only delivering the necessary equipment for the Kyiv center but also sharing expert knowledge of modern prosthetics practices.

The “Prosthetics Center Berlin-Kyiv” is being set up and operated within secure premises of a municipal hospital.

For this project, we are closely cooperating with the Bundeswehr Hospital in Berlin and the following medical supply companies: pro-samed GmbH, Seeger Gesundheitshaus GmbH & Co. KG, Hempel GesundheitsPartner GmbH, Zapfe Orthopädie-Technik GmbH, and Koch Orthopädie GmbH.

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May/June 2025

Together with prosthetist Andreas Barlakowksi (Daniel Koch Orthopädietechnik), we traveled to Kyiv to check whether the machines were all in the right place for an optimal workflow and to record everything that was missing. We dragged and changed the locations of the machines on site until everything was in the right place. We also provided on-site care for Valeri, one of our patients who came to us in Berlin in 2024 for prosthesis fitting, and checked the prosthesis for the need for adjustments.

The hospital also has a new director: Sergi Dubrov. We met with him to discuss the upcoming opening of the city's prosthetics center and all the next steps. The hospital is still missing some technical and medical equipment and materials, which we are now working on procuring with the help of our sponsors and cooperation partners.

April 2025: The Berlin Trainees Are Back in Kyiv to Prepare the Opening of the Prosthetics Center

After a year of intensive training at our partner orthopedic workshops in Berlin, trainees Akim Kot and Anastasia Tkach have now returned to Kyiv to help prepare for the opening of the prosthetics center.

March 2025: The Machines Are Running!

It looks a bit like a spaceship: no daylight, sparkling clean, and filled with brand-new machines. On behalf of Life Bridge Ukraine and our machinery supplier Streifeneder from Munich, our colleague Max Key has now tested and installed the machines at the Kyiv prosthetics center. Now it just needs to come to life: Hospital No. 12 is assembling the on-site team, and we are sourcing additional materials and fitting parts for the upcoming launch! Numerous war amputees are already on the waiting list for care.