With too many patients and a lack of staff, the struggles faced by Poltava's hospital are symptomatic of the challenges burdening the psychiatric sector across Ukraine. Its founder Christian Carrer is worried about patients: "They have no future... no solution", he laments, pointing out that in wartime it is "almost impossible" to offer them adequate treatment, particularly because "many doctors are at the front".
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00:00They're not visible, and in addition, they don't have a future, they don't have a solution.
00:26In a classic hospital hospital, we can try to occupy people, or give them a job, or give them a job, or give them the opportunity to go out.
00:34There is almost impossible, due to the inflammation, due to the number of doctors, many doctors are on the front.
00:43There are only nurses and women.
00:45There are many people who took part of the war, who took part of the war, who took part of the torture,
01:14and they can't talk about it.
01:18They can't deal with this either with relatives, with psychologists, with psychiatrists.
01:26So, with such patients, it's the most important thing.
01:33I'm sorry.
01:34I don't know much about my job.
01:42I really want to thank you.
01:44There was no medication. The pensioners, who lived there, couldn't buy any drugs, any of the diabetes, any of the pressure, any of the diabetes, any of the pressure, any of that.
02:03In my case, as if there was no medicine, it happened to me. I was brought to the hospital.