The course participants learned how to serve patients with prostheses, provide quality physical rehabilitation and psychological support to injured soldiers, and socialize them.
Twenty-one participants received certificates, including doctors, students and physiotherapists.
A meeting with representatives of the American healthcare network Northwell Health, which is the largest provider of medical services in the state of New York, was held at Kyiv Polytechnic.
Due to the full-scale war with Russia and the increasing number of people in need of prosthetics and rehabilitation, Ukraine has a need to implement the best technologies in this field.
KPI engineers will develop and manufacture innovative prostheses for the military that will allow them to live without restrictions.
Ukrainian enterprises and public organizations are interested in the RND center. The parties signed a memorandum of cooperation.
On June 7, the university and the medical unit of one of the military units signed a memorandum of cooperation.
National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, together with the Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology, will engage in bioprinting of organs and tissues, rehabilitation of the wounded, development and maintenance of operating theater furniture.
At the competition of startups of Innovative Projects Festival “Sikorsky Challenge” the project from FBMI “Balancing platform with reverse biological connection for rehabilitation at the stage of prosthesis” won the nomination “The best technological decision”.
On the eve of New Year and Christmas holidays the future physical therapists who are studied at the Department of Biosafety and Human Health of Biomedical Engineering Faculty Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute got wonderful gifts.
