Журнал «Боль. Суставы. Позвоночник» Том 13, №1, 2023
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Звернення члена редакційної колегії проф. Mário Rui Mascarenhas
Рубрики: Ревматология, Травматология и ортопедия
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Quo vadis, Ukraine?
Since 1 year ago, the unbelievable is happening in the free Europe of the 21st century!
A war provoked in an undeniably independent country, with totally genuine sovereignty, Ukraine, suffers a sane and is destroyed in vain by a fierce and bloodthirsty army that does not spare innocent civilians — children, adolescents, and adults of any age — causing them uncountable ways of death after unimaginable acts of physical and psychological torture. The survivors will never forgive them for such wickedness. The anger against these war crimes carried out by these armies of cowards and at the behest of their leaders will remain for centuries and centuries!
The wrath of the glorious Ukrainian people against such transgressive enemies will be eternal! In this case, the memory will never be short! Yes! Neighbors of this kind will always be defeated! Most countries of the world support Ukraine against an attempt to colonize by these imperialist and criminal neighbors!
Europeans already know that Ukraine is the first fortress for the defense of the rest of the free continent from such a cruel enemy! Europe thanks and shows that it wishes peace: peace yes, but with Ukraine’s intact borders as at the end of 2013 and with the Russians having a very bitter and very scandalously humiliating defeat! Yes, this war shows that after all the Russian army has always been a paper tiger, just like in the time of the USSR!
On the other side of Europe, far and far west most Portuguese wish for Ukraine’s victory, have supported and will continue to help, as far as possible, the Ukrainian people in their bravery against Russian imperialism that aspires just to get the resources of Ukraine at any price!
Those who wish to come to Portugal, this country so far away are and will always be welcome. Portuguese solidarity with the Ukrainian people has been held promptly since the beginning of the war, with the sending of medicines, food, clothes, and other essential goods, in the reception of refugees and the attempt to integrate into this society.
Many medical associations and other professions have expressed their support for colleagues in Ukraine, with the hope of a great victory very soon, of the Ukrainian people in defense of the basic principles of democracy and well-being in general!
The psychological and physical stresses that have chronically shaken the Ukrainian population — in addition to combat deaths and deaths from murder, serious bodily injury, missing and separated family members, and family refugees in Ukraine and abroad — contribute to the increased risk of developing osteoporosis and its complications! People with osteoporosis without a diagnosis, as it was about more than 35 years ago, cases of osteoporosis without therapy due to lack of access to medical care or treatment, increased risks of osteoporotic fracture. Ukrainians, who have definitely lost mobility, who at this moment though they live indeed no longer live, they only survive!
Meanwhile, life must go on! This Journal “Pain. Joints. Spine” is going on, bringing to light new articles and studies even if every day the war approaches its end, although we do not know when the date will be!
Ukrainian people are trying to live each day as a lifetime!
What we desire is the return of peace and a dignified life which, we well know, is the aspiration of the glorious Ukrainian people!
Slava Ukraine!
Member of Editorial Board of Journal “Pain. Joints. Spine”
Mário Rui Mascarenhas, MD, PhD
Professor, Environmental Health Institute, Lisbon’s Medical Faculty,
Hospital Lusíadas Amadora,
Portugal