and antimicrobial-resistant organisms in Ukrainian hospitals were "substantially higher" after the assault than they were 5 years before the war.
Surkov, 53, who is also medical director for Ukraine's largest military training center, is one of 30 clinicians who have received mentoring and state-of-the-science training at Harvard through the university's Scholars at Risk Program. Partnering with the, Scholars at Risk has invited the country's top mid-career specialists to transfer what they learn to improve healthcare delivery in Ukraine.
Physicians already are seeing improvement in Ukrainian hospitals, said Serguei Melnitchouk, MD, MPH, a Ukrainian-born cardiothoracic surgeon at Mass General who co-founded the Global Medical Knowledge Alliance with Nelya Melnitchouk, his wife.