A long, hard and lonely road to recovery

Imagine that you have been in the intensive care unit of an Attica hospital for weeks, unable to stand on your own two feet, and with only sporadic visits from family members. Every one of your visitors wears a white gown over their clothes, along with protective overshoes, a cap and a sanitary mask - not due to fears they might be contaminated but in order not to transmit any bacteria to you. This was a reality for some of the victims who were hospitalized after last year's devastating wildfires in eastern Attica. It is now just over a year since the day those individuals ran for their lives from the deadly flames.

Depending on where and the degree to which they had been burned or the surgical procedures they had to undergo, many of those people could not even move from their hospital beds. Severe burns can causes problems with the muscles and tendons under the skin while...

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