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The hospital in Ukraine's war-torn east has been shelled eight times since the conflict started more than a year ago, blasting a huge hole in a wall, shattering windows and terrorizing patients. Long suffering from the trauma within their minds, they now suffer the trauma of war, abandonment and a shortage of psychiatric medication.

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