(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) Details added: first version posted on December 8, 12:32
BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 8. Azerbaijan's
YASHAT Foundation sent its 177 seriously injured veterans of the
2020 second Karabakh war and seven members of martyr families for
treatment to Türkiye, the foundation's head Elvin Huseynov said on
December 8 at a press conference on the two-year activities of the
foundation in Baku, trend reports.
According to Huseynov, 160 of the persons have already returned
to Azerbaijan after undergoing treatment, while 23 seriously
injured veterans and one member of a martyr family continue
treatment in Türkiye.
The foundation's head also noted that with its support Turkish
doctors checked up on more than 150 injured veterans.
On March 10, 2021, a doctor invited from Türkiye checked up on
the seriously injured veteran in a coma. Between February 28 and
March 7, 2021, eight military doctors invited from Israel checked
up on 148 veterans with serious vision problems, Huseynov
explained.
According to the check-up results, 30 veterans were operated on,
the vision of two veterans was restored as a result of the
operation, 55 veterans were given prostheses, and 82 veterans were
checked up.
To continue the process of recovering the injured veterans, RGO
(Reciprocating Gait Orthosis) orthopedic devices worth 38,999 manat
($22,940), ordered by the foundation from abroad, were delivered to
the country. The equipment was used in the treatment of seven
injured veterans, he said.
Besides, according to the foundation's head, a Giger MD (Medical
Device) rehabilitation device worth 47,200 manat ($27,760) was also
purchased for the treatment of injured veterans.
On August 12, 2021, a member of YASHAT's Board of Trustees,
Professor of Neurology and Senior Consultant at the University of
Copenhagen, and President of the International Headache Society
Messoud Ashina checked up on 34 injured veterans and determined the
direction of treatment.
In August 2022, Messoud Ashina an Assistant Professor at Harvard
Medical School, Director of the Comprehensive Headache Center in
Boston Sait Ashina were again involved in the process of re-checkup
of 14 veterans who received severe head injuries during the second
Karabakh war at the Baku Health Center.
On August 12, 2021, a doctor from Israel checked up on nine
injured veterans and determined the directions of treatment. In
Türkiye (Istanbul, Bursa, and Izmit), with the support of the
foundation, a commission consisting of two employees of the
Azerbaijani State Agency Medical and Social Expertise and
Rehabilitation and two employees of the Association for the
Management of Medical Territorial Units was established (from
January 13 through January 16, 2022) to assess the degree of
disability of 28 seriously injured veterans receiving
treatment.
'On February 24, 2022, a team of medical personnel (cerebral
surgeon, plastic and aesthetic surgeon and pediatric hematologist)
from VM [Value Added Medicine] Medical Park, one of the largest
hospitals in Türkiye, arrived in our country. The doctors checked
up 20 injured [veterans], and one child from a martyr family, who
underwent surgery in Türkiye, successfully completed the treatment
and returned to Azerbaijan,” Huseynov noted.
“On May 20, 2022, a meeting was held with the participation of
representatives of the YASHAT Foundation, the Ministry of Labor and
Social Protection of the Population and the State Agency for
Compulsory Health Insurance of Azerbaijan. At the meeting, issues
of further rehabilitation of persons undergoing treatment in
Türkiye after their return to the country were discussed,' he
added.