Ukraine’s First Lady and Akshata Murty visit Paediatric Blast Injury Centre

The First Lady of Ukraine and the UK Prime Minister's wife visited Imperial College London's Centre for Paediatric Blast Injury Studies at White City. First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska and the Prime Minister's wife Akshata Murty toured the Centre , which is the world's first research hub dedicated to studying and providing lifesaving innovations to children injured by explosive weapons. Children are seven times more likely to die from blast injuries than adults. They tend to experience different types of injuries than adults and require specialist care that accounts for their physiology and growth. However, research on the best ways to treat child-specific blast injuries lags far behind research for injured adults. To address this need, the Centre is driving new research and innovations to meet the clinical needs of children with blast injuries. It does this by bringing together medics, engineers, pain specialists, operational humanitarians and prosthetics and rehabilitation experts.