Rehabilitologist, traumatologist-orthopedist Konstantin Ternovoy commented on the information that doctors from Germany could come to Russia to put prosthetics on the 2006 Olympic champion Roman Kostomarov, who danced on ice.
“Why can they attract foreign specialists to fit prosthetics? There is no industry for individual prostheses in Russia. It’s not about the experts, it’s about the industry. We cannot produce prosthesis suitable for Roman.
I think specialists from Germany will come to Kostomarov, where the production of such prostheses is very advanced. It is not recommended for him to travel at the moment, but they can come to him, ”says the expert sports24.
Formerly “Sport-Express” knowledgeablethat foreign doctors can come to Kostomarov and bring prosthetics.
It became known on January 10 that Roman Kostomarov was hospitalized. It was stated that he was taken to the intensive care unit due to pneumonia and was dependent on artificial lung ventilation, and his condition was reported to be extremely serious.
Later, the athlete was transferred to a hospital in Kommunarka, where he was resuscitated and connected to ECMO. The media wrote that Kostomarov underwent several operations to amputate his limbs due to the consequences of the disease. Now the skater is preparing for prosthetic surgery.