Century College to train Ukrainian healthcare professionals

BY SEBASTIAN STUDIER PRESS INTERN

Century College and the Protez Foundation have formed a partnership together to provide a training for Ukrainian health care professionals in prosthetics July 24Aug. 11. The training will take place in the Century College orthotics and prosthetics lab and will be led by Century College orthotics and prosthetics expert faculty. Twenty Ukrainian health care professionals will participate in the intensive three-week training.

The Protez Foundation is a nonprofit organization that works towards providing care to Ukrainians who have lost limbs during the Russian invasion by giving them high-quality prosthetic care.

Eric Riedel, Dean of Health Sciences at Century, thinks that this partnership is a great opportunity for Century College to expand its outreach and impact in the world.

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“I think this is a great opportunity to support the Protez Foundation and support those who have suffered from the war in Ukraine,” Riedel said. “It’s also an opportunity for us to provide the very best of our prosthetics training in a manner that will turn around and be applied very directly and immediately to those in need in Ukraine.”

According to Riedel, the health programs at Century College, including prosthetics and orthotics, have always had strong