War Trauma Rehabilitation in Ukraine: affected population assistance


Direct consequences of war result in an increased number of trauma patients evacuated from active conflict zones in need of physical rehabilitation, mental health and psychosocial support, and access to assistive technologies. The number of patients undergoing treatment is set to multiply in the coming weeks and months. This project seeks to rapidly ramp up urgently needed post-traumatic physical rehabilitation capacities (equipment and practitioner training) at Ukrainian hospitals in selected regions.

Land/Region Thema Periode Budget
Ukraine
Gesundheit
nothemedefined
Basisgesundheitsinfrastruktur
Medizinische Dienstleistungen
Stärkung der Gesundheitssysteme
23.05.2022 - 30.11.2024
CHF  4’900’000
Hintergrund The escalation of war in Ukraine has caused mass civilian casualties and increased the need in war affected trauma patients rehabilitation treatment. 
Ziele The primary goal is to improve quality and increase access to physical rehabilitation services in Ukraine for war-affected population. 
Zielgruppen Ukrainian population affected by war traumas (civilian population of all ages, veterans and volunteers) 
Mittelfristige Wirkungen

Outcome 1 (equipment and service delivery): Rehabilitation service provision is strengthened in selected partner facilities which can serve as scientific and training facility for other service providers.

Outcome 2 (workforce): Physical rehabilitation service providers deliver modern evidence-based services, adequate to the patient’s needs and relevant to war conditions, which are accessible and coordinated across different sectors and levels of care.

Outcome 3 (policy): Physical rehabilitation services governance and leadership improved.

Resultate

Erwartete Resultate:  

  1. Improved treatment facilities in the health institutions of Lviv, Chernihiv, Sumy (Kyiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv as reserve)
  2. Strengthened rehabilitation workforce capacities
  3. Harmonised rehabilitation policies and introduced ICF eHealth tool 


Resultate von früheren Phasen:  

Russian aggression since 24th February 2022 has triggered an unprecedented refugee crisis with 7.1 million IDPs and 4.4 million refugees. The ecalation of hostilities has caused mass civilian casualties and increased number of injured and traumatised people seeking for lifesaving healthcare and for rehabilitation services. Number of patients are referred to neighbouring countries for treatment but in view of increasing need for rehabilitation service provision, local rehabilitation capacities need to be strengthened.

The projects builds on the experiences of two past small projects in the field of rehabilitation. 


Verantwortliche Direktion/Bundesamt DEZA
Projektpartner Vertragspartner
Internationale oder ausländische NGO
  • “Patients of Ukraine” Charitable Foundation; Sub-contracts with: Ukrainian Healthcare Centre, School of Rehabilitation Medicine of UCU


Andere Partner
MoH, MoSP, NHSU
Koordination mit anderen Projekten und Akteuren
  • WHO, ICRC/URC, MSF, HI
  • Local Authorities
  • Rehabilitation sub-cluster led by WHO
Budget Laufende Phase Schweizer Beitrag CHF    4’900’000 Bereits ausgegebenes Schweizer Budget CHF    4’734’951 Projekttotal seit Anfangsphase Budget inklusive Projektpartner CHF   1’500’000
Projektphasen Phase 1 23.05.2022 - 30.11.2024   (Laufende Phase)