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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Elizabeth Piper and Vitalii Hnidyi

Liberated villages offer glimpse of precarious Ukrainian health system

Doctor Oleg Marchenko examines Vladimir Kushnir, who was exposed to high radiation levels in 1986 at the Chornobyl nuclear plant, at a clinic in the liberated village of Vyshneva, near Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, April 21, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Doctor Oleg Marchenko never knows what he will find when he visits villages retaken by Ukrainian forces in the east of the country last autumn. Mines lie scattered around and often there are no medical facilities left.

He can be certain of one thing, however: many patients he meets will be suffering from high blood pressure after living for months under Russian occupation near the frontlines.

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