Doctors call for more equipment to be sent to a city where medical facilities are swamped by patients from across Ukraine
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For Dr Dmytro*, who has worked as a cardiologist in Lviv for 13 years, few crosses are harder to bear than the death of a child – the loss of a patient whose life still lay before them – even when he knows there is nothing more he could have done.
But while all children’s deaths weigh heavily on his mind, the avoidable loss of Andriy, a one-week-old baby who died because of a shortage of X-ray machines, is one Dmytro still struggles to reconcile.
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