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Amy Sharpe

Ukrainian trainee medic who fled shelled hospital hopes to finish training in UK

A Ukrainian medical student who fled after the hospital she worked in was shelled hopes to one day complete her training in the UK.

Trainee doctor Vasiuta Alina hid in a bunker with a cancer patient for three days after the Department of Oncology in Kharkiv was struck two weeks ago.

Speaking at the Polish border town of Korczowa, the 22-year-old - who was due to qualify next year - vowed: “I will be a doctor, even if it takes twenty years.

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