ASSIST – Advanced Surgical Skills & Implants for Skeletal Trauma Fund
The recent project CAUSE [Canadian Assistance to Ukraine for Surgical Equipment] has grown into ASSIST [Advanced Surgical Skills & Implants for Skeletal Trauma]
It has been well established in the medical literature that during armed conflict, traumatic orthopedic injuries are a substantial burden to hospitals, physicians, nurses, equipment supply chains, and other health-system resources. War-related skeletal injuries frequently require expensive orthopedic implants and often require multiple operations to deal with soft tissue wounds. Orthopedic injuries frequently require long admission periods in hospitals, consuming significant resources.
In response to the war in Ukraine, in March of 2022, BCU Foundation established a medical humanitarian initiative CAUSE: Canadian Assistance to Ukraine for Surgical Equipment Fund. CAUSE provided orthopedic and trauma surgical supplies for Ukrainian hospitals and physicians caring for patients with wartime injuries. The project has now grown into ASSIST [Advanced Surgical Skills & Implants for Skeletal Trauma].
The volume of injuries as a result of the war in Ukraine has seriously drained Ukraine’s health system’s ability to cope. Assistance with the volume of surgical implants as well as more modern technology and training to use the latest technology is essential in Ukrainian hospitals now in order to have the best clinical outcomes for Ukrainian civilians and military personnel. Advanced Surgical Skills & Implants for Skeletal Trauma (ASSIST) Project will address both the orthopedic implant shortage and modernization and the training of surgeons for a more modern, advanced management of challenging wartime orthopedic surgical wounds.
OBJECTIVES of ASSIST
- To assist Ukrainian surgeons with procuring more modern and efficacious surgical equipment to support the military and civilian populations’ surgical needs during the conflict in Ukraine.
- To develop an ongoing, collaborative advanced surgical education program at Canadian trauma centers for Ukrainian surgeons to learn the use of latest generation trauma instrumentation applicable to the Ukrainian conflict.
If you would like to contribute to the ASSIST Fund:
- For credit card donations, follow the link;
- For e-mail money transfers, please donate to donations@BCUFoundation.com
