| Superhumans Center | |
| Location: | Wynnyky |
| Region: | Lviv Oblast |
| Country: | Ukraine |
| Funding: | Public |
| Beds: | 50 |
| Speciality: | surgery, orthopedics |
| Website: | https://www.superhumans.com/ |
The Superhumans Center is an orthopedic specialist clinic for the treatment and rehabilitation of war victims who are dependent on a prosthesis due to amputation. The focus of the clinic is a personalized approach to body and facial reconstruction, limb prothesis, skin transplantation, 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.[1] [2] Howard Graham Buffett provided the initial funding of $16.3 million (USD).[3]
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.[4]
Among the guests of honor at the opening was Richard Branson of the Virgin Group [5]
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,[6] and various American charities operating under the U.S. Charities covered by 501(c)(3).[7] [8]
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).[9] [10] 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.[11] As of 2024, the center continues to repair Ukraine's most gravely war-wounded.[12]