The last two weeks of fighting in Ukraine have inspired countless efforts to support and awareness, mainly in the form of fundraisers and marches. But two local doctors are going in a different direction, using their expertise to help save lives in the midst of war through educational videos.
about the videos
The doctors of Brigham and Women’s Hospital have started making instructional videos for Ukrainians caught up in the war zone.
Dr. Nelya Melnitchouk, oncology surgeon of Brigham and Women and a native of Ukraine, is using her medical expertise and her first language to teach Ukrainians how to save people wounded in the ongoing war.
Melnitchouk, along with Dr. Eric Goralnick, Brigham Emergency Physician, they filmed two educational videos with the aim of educating Ukrainians about hemorrhage control.
What kind of videos are they?
The videos were Melnitchouk’s idea, and Goralnick helped organize a collaboration with Stop the bleed. A national initiative that has as aim to educate people ccommon on how to prevent loss of blood that threatens life.
There are two versions of the video, a more detailed one that is 4 and a half minutes long and another that is 39 seconds long. Melnitchouk narrates the videos in ukrainianwhile Goralnick demonstrates on a mannequin how apply pressure to a woundpack material into the opening and apply a tourniquet.
The videos are meant to teach people everything from how to apply a tourniquet or what to do in the event of a chemical attack.
The bleeding video made by Dr. Nelya Melnitchouk and other doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital has been viewed over 10,000 times on YouTube. Even by the youngest nephew of Melnitchouk’s husband, a 20-year-old auto mechanic, stuck in the Ukraine.
“There were bombings. A bomb exploded and multiple victims. Thanks to the videos, He Himself was able to apply a tourniquet that he was wearing,” Melnitchouk said.
Brigham physicians recently completed a second instructional video for Ukraine. this time about what to do in case there is an attack with chemical weaponsbiological or radiation.
“I think the main goal of the work that we’ve been doing, and the videos, is really to try to educate the public so they can recognize the potential of a war exposure,” said Dr. Peter Chair, a physician at Brigham and He said. Women’s hospital.
Mass General Brigham has purchased a ad space on facebook to show the videos in Ukraine and YouTube has agreed to show them prominently in Ukrainian feeds.
Melnitchouk says that fortunately, in most of Ukrainepeople still have Internet access and the information they need to save lives is now just a click away.
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