HORLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Whenever the bombs fell, the men and women in the psychiatric ward would huddle in terror around fellow patient Valentina Izotova, a stout, maternal-looking woman, and she would read to them from her favorite book.
The hospital in Ukraine’s war-torn east has been shelled eight times since the conflict started more than a year ago, blasting a huge hole in a wall, shattering windows and terrorizing patients.
Long suffering from the trauma within their minds, they now suffer the trauma of war, abandonment and a shortage of psychiatric medication.
The staff — what’s left of it — face the …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
