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Ukrainian documentary photographer Maxim Dondyuk with the project "TB Epidemic in Ukraine" (TB Epidemic in Ukraine).

Maxim Dondyuk has been treating tuberculosis patients for 2 years, the number of which Ukraine in Europe is second only to Russia.

(Total 26 photos)

Source: esquire.ru

1. Prisoner Boris, 30 years old, diagnosis: tuberculosis. Zhdanovskaya correctional colony No. 3, February 2011.

2. Drying X-rays in Zhdanovskaya penal colony No. 3, February 2011. Many Ukrainian TB hospitals and prisons do not have modern X-ray equipment.

3. Valentin, 41 years old, diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV. Feodosia anti-tuberculosis dispensary, July 2012. Valentin is homeless, with a previous conviction, served 8 years for embezzlement of state property, is being treated for tuberculosis for the third time.

4. Valentina, who has been a laundress in a hospital for 25 years. Novozburyevsk TB dispensary, August 2011.

5. Andrei, aged 39, and Inna, aged 44, diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Enakievo TB dispensary, December 2010. Andrei and Inna met at the dispensary and call themselves civil husband and wife. Andrei is homeless, fell ill with tuberculosis in prison, and cannot officially register his marriage with Inna due to the lack of a residence permit.

6. Elena, 59 years old, diagnosis: tuberculosis of the spine. Donetsk TB Dispensary, December 2010. Elena successfully underwent surgical removal of parts of her spine affected by tuberculosis.

7. Irina, 46 years old, diagnosis: multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Dzerzhinsky TB dispensary, January 2011. Irina takes sputum in the treatment room.

8. Yury, 58 years old, diagnosis: multidrug-resistant extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Enakievo Tuberculosis Dispensary, December 2010. Yuri has been suffering from tuberculosis of the genitourinary system for 20 years. In 2009, due to gangrene, he lost his leg. After the urology department at the dispensary was closed, he had to travel by public transport to be examined at another hospital.

9. Yuri, 58 years old, Vladimir, 56 years old, diagnosis: multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Enakievo Tuberculosis Dispensary, December 2010. Vladimir's spine is broken, his lower body is paralyzed, one leg was amputated to the knee. He has been in his room for over 10 years. She cannot go outside in a wheelchair because the hospital does not have an elevator. In the same ward with Yuri and Vladimir, there are three more patients who are unable to move independently.

10. Leonid, 80 years old, had been ill with tuberculosis. Kherson tuberculosis dispensary, July 2011. Since 1949, he worked at a mine in the city of Krasny Luch, where he received a fracture of the spine and lung damage, which led to tuberculosis. Leonid died a month and a half after he was discharged from the hospital.

11. Kherson TB dispensary, August 2011.

12. Vasily, 73 years old, diagnosis: tuberculosis. Novozburyevsk TB dispensary, August 2011. It seems to Vasily that he is at work, has already submitted a letter of resignation and is waiting for the signature of the head physician. Once a month he is visited by a woman with a bag of food, who flatly denies being related to him.

13. Alexander, 56 years old, diagnosis: tuberculosis. Novotroitsk TB dispensary, July 2011. Alexander was beaten, lost his memory, and the hospital staff could not find his relatives, although the patient himself claims that his name is Alexander Mikhailovich Bukharev, he works in Kherson at a furniture factory, is married, has two children. Alexander is prone to aggression, so he must be transferred to a psychiatric clinic for tuberculosis patients.

14. Anna, 42 years old, diagnosis: multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Novozburyevsk TB dispensary, August 2011. Anna contracted TB from her father 16 years ago. She began treatment for tuberculosis in 1998, was discharged 11 months later and was treated at home with folk remedies for the next 12 years. After the death of her husband, Anna suffered a nervous breakdown, which caused a recurrence of tuberculosis.

15. Sputum collection in the Novozburyevsk TB dispensary, August 2011.

16. Valentina, has been working as a phthisiatrician since 1980. Novozburyevsk TB dispensary, August 2011.

17. Nikolay, 68 years old, diagnosis: tuberculosis. Novozburyevsky TB dispensary, August 2011. He fell ill with tuberculosis in the Kakhovka Nursing Home, was transferred to the hospital, where he broke his leg. All documents and belongings from Nikolai were stolen by other patients. Undocumented, unable to receive pension and unable to pay for $50 surgery.

18. Eduard, 46 years old, Vladimir, 45 years old, diagnosis: multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Dzerzhinsky TB Dispensary, January 2011. Eduard contracted TB in prison. After his release, he learned that he had diabetes.

19. A patient in the Tsyurupinsk Children's TB Hospital, September 2011.

20. Maxim, 8 years old, diagnosis: suspected tuberculosis and tuberculous sclerosis. Tsyurupinsk Children's TB Hospital, September 2011. Maxim, an orphan, was transferred to the hospital from a boarding school.

21. Bypassing the cameras in the Donetsk pre-trial detention center, February 2011.

22. Rolan (in the foreground), 38 years old, Timur (at the window on the left), 30 years old, Andrey (at the window on the right), 40 years old, Nikolai (at the window on the right), 24 years old. Donetsk pre-trial detention center, February 2011. Rolan and Timur were found to have tuberculosis in the pre-trial detention center.

23. Aleksey, 70 years old, diagnosis: multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Dzerzhinsky TB Dispensary, January 2011. Alexei worked as a bulldozer driver at a mine for 40 years. While he was in the dispensary, his wife passed away. He gives his entire pension to his daughter.

24. Prisoners in the treatment room of the tuberculosis department of the Starozburyevsk Correctional Colony No. 7, July 2011.

25. Medical examination of prisoners of the Zhdanov correctional colony No. 3 for patients with tuberculosis, February 2011.

26. Medical building of the Kherson maximum security colony No. 61 for patients with tuberculosis, July 2011.