On Ukraine's front line, a provincial hospital treats civilians and soldiers.
Everybody could hear the burst of automatic weapons in the distance. But inside the dimly lit halls of the Avdiivka City Hospital, doctors and nurses paid it little mind.
Anatoly Arkatov, the head surgeon, guides a patient in a wheelchair to an examination room at the Avdiivka Central City Hospital. Natural gas from the plant heats Avdiivka’s rows of housing blocks and other buildings, including the hospital. Before the conflict, the community hospital was a place to deliver a baby or have an appendix removed. But as the closest medical facility to the front line, it soon became a makeshift military hospital.
Other doctors and nurses sent their families to live in safer parts of Ukraine, then moved into the hospital, sleeping in offices or the hallways for weeks at a time. “People ask me why I stayed this whole time and why I didn’t just leave when I could,” said Dr. Oleksandr Poltoradnya, the head of anesthesiology. “I don’t know what to say. I just look at them and say, ‘I must be crazy.”Yevgeniy Korolenko, 51, left, who suffers from heart problems, has his blood pressure taken by nurse Senior Sgt. Ella Seymova at the Avdiivka Central City Hospital.The hospital has seen about 300 soldiers and 200 civilians a year over the course of the war.
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