UNBROKEN Center
| UNBROKEN Center | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Hetmana Mazepy St 25д, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine |
| Organisation | |
| Network | First Lviv Medical Union |
| History | |
| Opened | 2022 |
| Links | |
| Website | https://unbroken.org.ua/ |
| Lists | Hospitals in Ukraine |
The UNBROKEN Center[1] or UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center[2] is a Ukrainian medical and rehabilitation centre in Lviv that treats soldiers and civilians, including children, affected by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
History
UNBROKEN Center was created in Lviv after Russia’s full-scale invasion, when the city became a major rear-area humanitarian and medical hub for displaced and wounded Ukrainians. Work on the new hospital and rehabilitation complex began shortly after the invasion, and within several months UNBROKEN was established as a rehabilitation centre for victims of the war; it initially treated large numbers of injured civilians and later increasingly focused on wounded soldiers with complex trauma, amputations, burns, brain injuries and other war-related injuries.[3]
The center was developed on the basis of the Lviv First Medical Union, and in April 2023, with the participation of Lviv mayor Andrii Sadovyi, a former polyclinic block was opened as a modern rehabilitation building, after Lviv had hosted more than five million displaced people and over 11,000 wounded persons.[4]
Services
The center is reportedly the largest medical facility in Ukraine and offers a full cycle of care, including emergency treatment, reconstructive surgery, orthopaedics, prosthetics, physical rehabilitation and psychological support, and states that it had treated more than 20,000 wounded Ukrainians, including 360 children.[1] Its prosthetics and orthotics centre is integrated into the First Lviv Territorial Medical Union, a municipal multidisciplinary hospital, a model intended to combine medical, rehabilitation and technical work in one treatment pathway.[5]
UNBROKEN has been covered by international media as part of the wider response to Ukraine’s large number of war-related amputations and traumatic injuries. The center specializes in bionic and prosthetic limbs, providing them for free to soldiers injured by Russian attacks.[6] Bionic limbs offered by UNBROKEN include products from Ottobock (Germany), Össur (Iceland), Levitate (Denmark), Aether Biomedical (Poland) and Ukrainian startup Esper Bionics.[5][7]
Funding
The center receives extensive international funding, grants, and medical equipment from foreign governments, charities, banks, and corporate donors, including the government of Taiwan which donated over €5 million to construct a new medical and rehabilitation facility on the campus,[8] Direct Relief which awarded a $1 million grant,[9] or the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development which matched a JustGiving crowdfunding campaign.[10]
See also
References
- 1 2 "About rehabilitation center". UNBROKEN. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
- ↑ "About Unbroken". Don't Give up Ukraine. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
- ↑ Fritsch, Manuel (5 June 2024). "Aid for civilian and military victims of war". deutschland.de. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
- ↑ "OPENING OF A MODERN REHABILITATION BUILDING AT THE UNBROKEN NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER". Unbroken. 7 April 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
- 1 2 "Prosthesis". UNBROKEN. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
- ↑ Jones, Marc. "Ukraine's bionic limb center expands as war grinds on". Reuters. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
- ↑ Czawaga, Konstanty (19 October 2024). "Protezy bioniczne dla ukraińskich weteranów (en. Bionic prostheses for Ukrainian veterans)". Kurier Galicyjski. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
- ↑ Lin, Ching-hua (21 June 2026). "Taiwan-funded medical facility to open in Ukraine". Taipei Times. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
- ↑ Morain, Tony. "Direct Relief Awards $1 Million Grant to Unbroken National Rehabilitation Center in Ukraine". reliefweb. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
- ↑ Rybakova, Julia. "I'm raising £20000 to fund the equipment for UNBROKEN rehabilitation center". JustGiving. Retrieved 22 June 2026.