Superhumans Center
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| Superhumans Center | |
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| Location | Wynnyky, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine |
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| Beds | 50 |
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| Website | https://www.superhumans.com/ |
| Lists | Hospitals in Ukraine |
The Superhumans Center is a 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 rehabilitation specialists and prostheticians[1].
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.[2][3] Howard Graham Buffett provided the initial funding of $16.3 million (USD).[4]
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 and the Minister of Health Viktor Liashko.[5]
Among the guests of honor at the opening was Richard Branson of the Virgin Group [6]
The supervisory board of the clinic includes President's wife Olena Zelenska. Supporters include rock singer Sting and his partner Trudie Styler, actor and director Liev Schreiber, the British Virgin Group,[7] and various American charities operating under the U.S. Charities covered by 501(c)(3).[8][9]
On November 5, 2022, Ukrainian singer-actor Andriy Danylko, also known by his stage name Verka Serduchka, auctioned off his 1974 Rolls-Royce, once owned by Freddie Mercury, 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).[10][11] 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.[12] As of 2024, the center continues to repair Ukraine's most gravely war-wounded.[13]
On April 10, 2025, during his first visit to Ukraine, Prince Harry visited the Superhumans Center. A meeting with the team of the Come Back Alive Foundation and the Come Back Alive Initiative Center, led by Deputy Director Oleh Karpenko, took place at the facility. Representatives of the Invictus Games Foundation, the Ukrainian Invictus Games team, as well as representatives of ministries and veteran initiatives were also in attendance.[14]