MILAN — Caring for patients in conflict zones, Ukrainian ophthalmologists work under constant pressure and face multiple challenges.
“Many of our clinics have been destroyed or occupied, doctors and nurses have been evacuated, and the logistics for the delivery of consumables have been disrupted,” Andrii Ruban, MD, PhD, president of the Ukrainian Vitreoretinal Society, said at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting.
Ruban, who runs the Center of Clinical Ophthalmology in Kyiv, has had to deal over the past 7 months of war with severe combat eye