Ukraine’s network of often crumbling Soviet-era psychiatric hospitals is grappling with a wave of traumatized soldiers, putting further strains on an already overwhelmed care system
, some institutions in the east of the country evacuated their patients westward to places like the Lviv Regional Psychiatric Hospital. That put extra pressure on this and other residential institutions for people with mental, intellectual and developmental disabilities that Western experts say were already underfunded and overstretched before the invasion.A personal, guided tour to the best scoops and stories every day in The Wall Street Journal.
Doctors and Western experts say the war is creating additional mental-health scars that threaten to push Ukraine’s fragile care system into a lasting crisis. Ukraine has been slower to move away from the large-scale use of such residential institutions than the West, where there is greater emphasis on care in local communities.
Ukraine was already dealing with the mental-health fallout from fighting that has occurred in the east of the country with Russian-led separatists since 2014. Around 15% of Ukrainian soldiers who have fought there have suffered from some form of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to Ms. Voznitsyna.
When her group arrived in Lviv, they were exhausted. Some had lost weight, and others had total memory loss, doctors said. Several were admitted to intensive-care units, where some died.
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