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[[A group of Ukrainian students at California’s Stanford University discovered they could help their homeland by organizing online telemedicine services, recruiting over 75 physicians, specialists and psychologists to provide free consultations to Ukrainians in both Ukraine and Poland. Khrystyna Shevchenko has the story, narrated by Anna Rice.]]
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Transcript/ScriptTeleHelp Ukraine – Shevchenko
HEAD: Ukrainian Students in California Organize Telemedicine Help for Those Back Home
TEASER: Students, professors at Stanford University have recruited physicians, other doctors to provide medical, psychological advice to Ukrainians affected by war
DATE: 08/xx/2022
PUBLISHED AT:
BYLINE: Khrystyna Shevchenko
CONTRIBUTOR:
DATELINE: Los Angeles
VIDEOGRAPHER: Khrystyna Shevchenko
VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA + TBD
PRODUCER:
SCRIPT EDITORS: MAS, Reifenrath
PLATFORMS: TV only
TRT: 3:13
VID APPROVED BY: Jepsen
TYPE: TVPKG
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[[A group of Ukrainian students at California’s Stanford University discovered they could help their homeland by organizing online telemedicine services, recruiting over 75 physicians, specialists and psychologists to provide free consultations to Ukrainians in both Ukraine and Poland. Khrystyna Shevchenko has the story, narrated by Anna Rice.]]
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Dr. Florence Thiry, who is of Belgian descent, lives and works as a general practitioner in Palo Alto, California.
For the past few weeks, she’s been providing free online medical consultations to Ukrainians at or near the frontlines of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
((Dr. Florence Thiry, General Practitioner)) ((IN ENGLISH))
“I talk to children, but also seniors and adults, and also students. // It’s mainly questions like, ‘What can I do if I don’t have medication?’ It’s a very big problem; they cannot find
the medication they used to use, so I try and help them treat their problem without medication.”
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Thiry participates in the TeleHelp Ukraine
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project organized by Ukrainian students and professors at Stanford
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University. Through the program, doctors in the U.S. offer free online medical consultations to Ukrainians in both Ukraine and Poland.
Solomiia Savchuk, who's from the Ivano-Frankivsk region in western Ukraine, is a student at
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Stanford University and the executive director of the TeleHelp Ukraine project.
((Solomiia Savchuk, TeleHelp Ukraine)) ((IN UKRAINIAN))
“There are many U.S. doctors, very experienced, who can’t to fly to Poland or Ukraine and help refugees there. But what they have is a few hours a week when they volunteer and give free online consultations or psychological support to Ukrainians that can’t get in touch with their usual doctors in Ukraine because local doctors are too preoccupied with the war.”
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TeleHelp Ukraine works with a wide array of doctors – from
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general practitioners to psychologists and psychiatrists. In time, more specialists joined. Now the roster includes cardiologists, neurologists,
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dermatologists, endocrinologists and others.
TeleHelp targets people at or near the front lines and other hard-hit areas where hospitals and medications are limited.
((Solomiia Savchuk, TeleHelp Ukraine)) ((IN UKRAINIAN))
“If a person has a chronic disease or they are out of medication and they need to start taking a new medication, or maybe they need a medical consultation, maybe their child got sick — that’s when they get in touch with us.”
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Many Ukrainians need psychological support. TeleHelp Ukraine
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has over 20 volunteer psychologists. They say young
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people especially need support and to know that they can rebuild their lives and country.
((Anaid Atasuntseva, Psychologist)) ((IN ENGLISH)) ((Skype))
“A lot of depression, anxiety… Many of them have survivor’s guilt or many want to help and feel they are not doing enough to help… I think the war has exacerbated a lot of problems that people were having even prior to the war.”
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Over 60 volunteers and 75 doctors are taking part in the project, with the help of certified translators.
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((For Khrystyna Shevchenko in Palo Alto, California, Anna Rice, VOA News))
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
NetworkVOA
Location (dateline)Los Angeles
Embargo DateAugust 10, 2022 20:25 EDT
Byline((For Khrystyna Shevchenko in Palo Alto, California, Anna Rice, VOA News))
Brand / Language ServiceVoice of America - English