The veteran trauma surgeon who helped treat and transport Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall appeared in a television interview Wednesday to give an update.
Hall is reportedly recovering from his wounds in Poland.
Dr. Richard Jadick abruptly left his teaching position in Tennessee to travel to Kyiv to retrieve Hall. Jadick is a Marine veteran who received the Bronze Star Medal.
Nonprofit organization Save Our Allies contacted the surgeon and asked for his help to assess the situation in Ukraine. Within a week of arriving in Poland, Jadick was assigned to extract Hall and treat him.
“Save Our Allies are the ones who had us in the right position to be able to do for Ben what he needed, which is a safe, easy recovery,” Jadick said.
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Jadick and Hall departed the city within 20 minutes of the surgeon arriving at where the Fox News reporter was initially recovering in Kyiv. An unknown Ukrainian orthopedic surgeon on the scene had treated Hall with “one ex fix, little bit of K-wire — things that you do to fix bones,” according to Jadick.
“And he looked at me and he said, ‘That’s all I got, and I hope it’s OK,'” Jadick recounted. He also went on to explain that this was the same man in charge of keeping a post at night, armed with an AK-style assault rifle.
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“So we worked hard at putting together the right scenario to get him out safely,” Jadick said.
Save Our Allies began in 2021 in the fallout of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
