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Mechnikov
[ myech-nyi-kuhf ]
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During the day, Mechnikov functions as a normal hospital, treating patients with cancer and other chronic diseases.
Like Ukraine itself, the Mechnikov Hospital - which is more than 200 years old - has been transformed by war over the past decade.
Evacuated from trenches in the east, forests in the north and the open fields of the south, wounded soldiers begin showing up at the Mechnikov Hospital in late afternoon, and dozens more in desperate need of surgery are wheeled in before the sun rises the next day.
Surgeons at Mechnikov are busier now than perhaps at any other time since Russia began its full-scale invasion 17 months ago, according to doctors at the hospital, who declined to be more specific.
Wounded soldiers are typically cared for in hospitals closer to the front line and then, once stabilized, they are brought to Mechnikov, a journey that can sometimes take half a day.
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