Doctor ‘ready to fight’ for his home of Ukraine

Sports medicine specialist Dr Dmytro Babelyuk of Lviv is among an army of doctors staying to help injured and sick citizens
Dr Dmytro Babelyuk.

Ukraine sports doctor Dr Dmytro Babelyuk is ready to switch from managing footballers’ hamstrings to treating and eventually rehabbing patients with war wounds. 

Dr Babelyuk was the team doctor for a professional football team in the city of Lviv in western Ukraine when he woke to the “nightmare” of sirens and the news that Russia had invaded his country in the early hours of 24 February.