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The Superhumans Center is an specialist clinic for the treatment and rehabilitation of war victims with specialist in orthopaedic trauma, reconstructive and Plastics Surgery, Facial Surgery and Ear Nose and Throat Surgery as well as rehabiliation specialists and prostheticians. Many patients are dependent on a prosthesis due to amputation. The focus of the clinic is a personalized approach to body and facial reconstruction, limb reconstruction and prothesis, free tissue transfer and complex plastic surgical reconstruction of muscles nerves and soft tissue, exoskeletons, powered by domestically manufactured state-of-the-art medical devices but also psychological support for patient. Co-founded by Andrey Stavnitser and Philipp Grushko, the center operates several departments, including surgical, traumatological, physical, PTSD and a pediatric reconstruction department.
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provided the initial funding of $16.3 million (USD). On April 14, 2023, the hospital in Wynnyky, Lviv Oblast was ceremoniously opened after only 8 months of renovation in the presence of the President's wife
Olena Zelenska Olena Volodymyrivna Zelenska (née Kyiashko; born 6 February 1978) is a Ukrainian screenwriter who is the current First Lady of Ukraine as the wife of President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenska was named by Time (magazine), '' ...
and the Minister of Health
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. Among the guests of honor at the opening was
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of the Virgin Group The supervisory board of the clinic includes President's wife
Olena Zelenska Olena Volodymyrivna Zelenska (née Kyiashko; born 6 February 1978) is a Ukrainian screenwriter who is the current First Lady of Ukraine as the wife of President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenska was named by Time (magazine), '' ...
. Supporters include rock singer
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and his partner
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, actor and director
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, the British
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, and various American charities operating under the U.S. Charities covered by 501(c)(3). On November 5, 2022, Ukrainian singer-actor Andriy Danylko, also known by his stage name
Verka Serduchka Andriy Mykhailovych Danylko (; born 2 October 1973), better known as his drag persona Verka Serduchka (, ; , ), is a Ukrainian comedian, actor, and singer. He in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 as Verka with the song " Dancing Lasha Tumbai", ...
, auctioned off his 1974 Rolls-Royce, once owned by
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, through London auction house Sotheby's for £250,000 to deal with the sale of the car to the Superhumans Center for support. The car, which was auctioned by Danylko in 2013 for £75,000, raised an additional £36,250 thanks to the sale house waiving the buyer's premium, raising a total of £286,250 (about €328,900). In 2023-2024, Dmytro Derevytskyy's company, ALLO donated UAH 15 million for prostheses and prosthetics. By mid-2023, an estimated 10,000 Ukrainian had lost a limb during the war. As of 2024, the center continues to repair Ukraine's most gravely war-wounded.


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Official website
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