FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — More than 2 months of war in Ukraine have disrupted retina care and turned ophthalmologists into combat surgeons, according to the president of the Ukrainian Vitreoretinal Society.
Andrii Ruban, MD, PhD, spoke at the Retina World Congress live in a video conference from Kyiv to detail the horrors of the Russian invasion and how his society is working to provide care.
“On February 24, the life of Ukrainians was divided into before and after,” he said. “Russian full-scale war against Ukraine has been going on for more than 2 months — more than