Hardware and hardships: US doctors help Ukraine medical teams via telehealth, but needs are staggering

As a trauma specialist and orthopedic surgeon in the western Ukraine city of Uzhhorod, Andriy Buchok has grown used to the frequent 24-hour shifts that make him feel like he lives in the hospital where he works, routinely skipping his supposed days off.

Harder than that is the lack of medical equipment required to treat some war injuries, which can mean the difference between a patient keeping a limb and having it amputated.