(ANSA) – PAVIA, APRIL 15 – He arrived in Pavia five years ago to treat a severe form of leukemia at the Policlinico San Matteo. Oleg Romaniuc, 24, Ukrainian, blind, today in the same hospital carries out a precious task: he acts as an interpreter for the young patients who have arrived in recent weeks.
Children who fled the war together with their mothers.
“I became blind – explains Oleg – due to the treatment received by Ukrainian doctors in a desperate attempt to save me”. But to talk to his little compatriots he doesn’t need eyes. “I feel infinite tenderness and I feel all the pain they bring inside – says the 24-year-old Ukrainian -.
They tell of the bombs, of the shots, of the basements where they found shelter. I try to reassure them and make them think of something else: I try to get them their favorite foods, I even brought someone a guitar. “A role that he plays with infinite sweetness, as confirmed by doctors and nurses of the Pediatrics of the Pavia Polyclinic.
Oleg acts as mediator and interpreter for hospitalized children in collaboration with the Soleterre association, which brought the young patients to Italy through the humanitarian corridors organized already in the first days of the conflict in Ukraine.
Thanks to the care received at the San Matteo, today the 24-year-old from Lviv is better. He is enrolled in the third year of Occupational Therapy and hopes to be able to work as a physiotherapist in the future. His family is still in Lviv; while his mother lives with him in Pavia. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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