The Charity Foundation Superhumans will create a hospital for reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation in Odessa. The opening is scheduled for 2025. It was announced this summer by the co-founder of the Superhumans Center, the Ukrainian businessman Andrey Stavnitser on his Facebook page.
The new hospital will operate in the territory of the Medical University. It will occupy an area of 4 thousand square meters. It will include a prosthetics laboratory, rooms for physical rehabilitation, and a center for psychological support and reintegration of veterans. It will accept not only veterans but also civilians from the regions of Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odessa and Zaporizhzhya. University students will have the opportunity to do internships.
Further to the signing, on June 7, at the Élysée Palace of the Intergovernmental Agreement, in the presence of the Ukrainian and French Presidents, Expertise France, a subsidiary of AFD Group specialising in technical cooperation by France, will contribute to the creation of a new Superhumans rehabilitation center in Odessa. The agreement was signed in the presence of the First Lady Zelenska, the Minister of Health of Ukraine and Pierre Heilbronn, special envoy of the French President. The French Government will provide a total funding of Euro 4 million to the project.
“Expertise France, thanks to the funding of the Crisis Center of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, supports with great pride the establishment of the Superhumans Center in Odessa, replicating the very successful model of Lviv. Beyond supporting Ukraine in managing the trauma care pathway for war-wounded, our collaboration includes the education and training of healthcare professionals in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation, thereby multiplying effective approaches to support individuals affected by war,” said Jérémie Pellet, Managing Director of Expertise France.
In addition, French doctors will assist the center in training specialists in providing medical care for injuries caused by mines and explosions.
"We will begin training for the multidisciplinary team and preparations for the launch in September. We plan to begin full-fledged work at the beginning of 2025," said Andrey Stavnitser, who together with the other co- founder Philipp Grushko, is the initiator of the project.
The first clinic of the Superhumans Center project was opened in April 2023 in Lviv on the premises of one of the local hospitals, with an investment estimated at $ 54 million. It is planned to receive about 3 thousand patients there annually.
Funds to finance the project are raised in Ukraine and abroad through fundraising. The Superhumans clinic in Lviv focuses on prosthetics for adults and children, surgical operations to reconstruct and restore disfigured parts of the body, in particular the face, as well as the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.
