Jakub Szczerba is an orthopedist who graduated from the Silesian Medical University in the southern Polish city of Katowice last year, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
In June and July, he spent several weeks treating injured Ukrainian soldiers near the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut and in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region.
He was part of a medical team provided by Poland's W Międzyczasie foundation.
Szczerba told reporters that the team's frontline job was to reach wounded soldiers, often under enemy fire, administer first aid and help evacuate them to the nearest field hospital for treatment.
The doctor said that "if a soldier gets first aid from the battlefield medics and doesn’t bleed to death, their chances of survival increase," the PAP news agency reported.
“Our job was to bring the injured soldier to the hospital alive,” he added.
The Polish doctor told reporters that on some days, up to a hundred soldiers had to be evacuated to the field hospital, about a third of them with heavy injuries.
Szczerba described war as chaos "where a drone strike or artillery bombardment can happen at any time."
The young Polish doctor said he would return to the front in Ukraine if needed, the PAP news agency reported.
“If colleagues call us to say they’re running out of medical staff to treat the soldiers … if I’ll be able to help I’ll go back,” he said.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, launching the largest military campaign in Europe since World War II.
Wednesday is day 532 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Source: PAP, cowzdrowiu