“Everyone is in severe or moderately serious condition”: hospital in Kremenchuk after russia’s missile strikes on Amstor shopping center

Rubryka reporter spoke with the chief doctor and patients of one of the city hospitals.

Kremenchuk hospitals are crowded today. There are victims of a yesterday missile strike by russia on the Amstor shopping center, and their relatives, doctors, and journalists fill the wards and corridors. The hospital director, Ms. Oksana, comments:

"A total of 25 people were taken to our hospital, six of them were seriously injured, and one died. One has already been transferred to another department, and his condition has improved, stabilized, and become moderate. There are currently four people in intensive care. The main injuries are hands, face, and all mine injuries. The fractures of the jaws, amputation of the right hand, and partial amputation of the right thigh. Seventeen people were treated on an outpatient basis, thirteen were referred to family doctors, and four were hospitalized."

Rubryka visited the hospital for adults. The oldest victim of the explosion was born in 1956, the youngest in 2002. The injuries with which people are taken to the hospital, according to the director, are mostly shrapnel wounds. There are no lesions of internal organs. The patients who have lost a lot of blood are in the most severe condition.

Mykola, 39, was near the shopping center when an enemy missile hit the mall. Mykola went to the Eldorado store but did not have time to go inside the shopping center. An explosion burst and the man was thrown aside and wounded by shrapnel. Recalling yesterday's events and the help of doctors, Mykola quietly adds: "It's not so painful anymore."

Ihor, 55, saw the missile strike. The man was then inside the Amstor shopping center.

"I remember the rocket arriving," he said. The blast threw him back a few meters. The man got out of the mall himself. "There were no ambulances yet. There was no air to breathe."

According to Ihor, there were many people in the shopping center. Most of them were in Silpo.

Oleksandr, 33, has a shrapnel wound to his leg, a contusion, and several minor shrapnel wounds, he calls them "scratches." The man worked in one of the stores of the Amstor shopping center. He went out into the backyard during an air raid. When an explosion occurred 20 meters from the man, "everything darkened, it was like a fog," Oleksandr said.

"I started crawling under the car. I got out from under it, and turned around — everything was already burning. "

In the store where Oleksandr works, according to him, everyone survived — "they managed to jump out." "The blow on the Komfi store was terrible. People are still being searched for," Oleksandr adds. "There are no military facilities or factories nearby. All these are russists' stories. Thank God I survived. I was born in a shirt."