Serbian doctor devised a trap for shrapnel, she helped Croats and Muslims, even the victims of Chernobyl disaster (PHOTO) (VIDEO)

Doctor Dusanka Mandic devised medical devices based on a magnetic field. Our doctor is famous for making the so-called trap for shrapnel, which helped the wounded. She came up with her invention while she was helping the wounded in the Chernobyl disaster and the wounded in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The doctor held a book promotion at the Bookfair, and she has been gathering the materials for it for 25 years.

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- I have been working with the wounded since 1992, and in 1993 I started taking pictures.

According to her, the trap for shrapnel is a small device, it is a magnetic and technical solution, for removal of iron objects from the wounded to the surface. 

- The trap for shrapnels is a small magnetic patent device, a technical solution, for removal of iron objects from the bodies of the wounded to the surface. When some shrapnel, or a bullet, enter a body, if any part of it has magnetic properties, it will go out to the trap. There are no complications due to the slow movement. Sharp objects push anatomic structures on their way to the surface while moving slowly - said Dr. Mandic.

 The patent was created from the great love for the wounded that she helped, it was first used to reduce pain. 

- And since we reduced the pain with bio magnets, then the shrapnel started jumping out to those bio magnets and that's how the idea about the invention was created - Dusanka Mandic explains.

Foto: Telegraf

THE SHRAPNEL ARE GOING OUT EVEN AFTER  YEARS

The doctor explains that it is a minimally invasive method, which was first performed in hospitals, since they were afraid that there could be some complications, and now it can be done on the field. There are no complications due to the slow movement of the objects. Dr. Mandic said that, in some cases, shrapnel came out even after 55 years. According to her, 68 percent of the shrapnel come out in the first six weeks, while some shrapnel wonder for years and some can't be taken out if they are tied to the bone.

She said that there are over 1.000 whom she helped. 

- Now it is used to extract needles and various objects, hooks... We use it in sports, in traffic or medicine when a piece of an instrument is broken - the doctor said. 

Foto: Nikola Tomić

She helped the famous tennis player Novak Djokovic.

- It can reduce pain when something is hurting them, but it can also be used as prevention since our body is 70 percent water. General effect of the magnetic field on that water is healing, athletes have better conditioning - the doctor said.

She said that she still has contact with some of the patients as if they are her family.

SHE HELPED EVERYBODY 

- I helped everybody, you know that medicine has no limits. I helped Croats and Muslims and everybody who was there when I was in Brussels at the fair where I was the World Inventor of the Year. That trap is humane, the invention is like that, it was applied as such and it remained that way - she explained.

SHE TREATED BLOOD VESSELS TO VICTIMS OF CHERNOBYL 

Dusanka Mandic stayed in Moscow in 1999, where she met with the victims of Chernobyl disaster.

- Their blood vessels in the legs were burned due to walking on the radioactive ground. They had vascular problems and wounds on the body, so we worked together and I have been vice-president of their Academy for the Care of Disaster Victims ever since - Mandic said.

(Telegraf.co.uk / J. Stakic / j.stakic@telegraf.rs)