BOWA Lotus 4: Precision Surgery in a Warzone

In a frontline hospital in eastern Ukraine, life-saving decisions are made every minute. Not just by brave doctors – but by the tools in their hands.

One of those tools is the BOWA Lotus 4: a surgical device that brings precision, control, and speed into the chaos of war. And it’s changing everything.

Cutting-edge technology, built for conflict zones
The BOWA Lotus 4 is a high-frequency ultrasonic generator designed for both open and laparoscopic surgery. But what makes it special is its torsional ultrasound technology, allowing surgeons to dissect and seal blood vessels without heat, without smoke, and without traditional sutures.

This means:

Less blood loss

Fewer complications

Shorter surgery times

No need for full incisions

In a warzone where every unit of blood matters, and where sterilization is never guaranteed, this tool doesn’t just make surgery safer – it makes it possible.

Our first delivery – and what it changed
Earlier this year, 1 for Ukraine delivered a BOWA Lotus 4 to a surgical team in the Kharkiv region. Within 30 days, the team had performed over 80 surgeries using the device.

“This is the most efficient tool we’ve had since the war began,” said the hospital’s chief surgeon. “We no longer need to transport patients to Dnipro or Kyiv for procedures we can now do here.”

The ripple effect was immediate:

Fewer evacuations

Faster recoveries

More surgeries per day

Lives saved, on-site

What It Costs – and What It Saves
A BOWA Lotus 4 costs approximately €23,000.
In just one year, it enables over 900 life-saving procedures – surgeries that would otherwise be delayed, improvised, or simply impossible.

That’s less than €25 per life saved in year one alone.

But this is not short-term aid. It’s infrastructure.
We expect each unit to last at least 10 years – and many hospitals in Ukraine are still using surgical equipment that is 15 years old or more.

Which means that over its lifetime, the cost per life saved drops to €2.50.

Less than a coffee. For a life.
And unlike coffee, this one changes everything.

What happens next
We are preparing to deliver additional BOWA units to hospitals further east – where resources are thinner, risks are greater, and the stakes could not be higher.

But we need your help.

When you donate to 1 for Ukraine, you don’t fund overhead or campaigns. You fund precision tools that operate under pressure and perform with purpose.

From technology to trust
In the middle of war, trust is fragile. But systems built on data, impact, and transparency are not. The BOWA Lotus 4 is one piece of a bigger machine – a machine we are building to make humanitarian aid measurable, repeatable, and scalable.

And we’re just getting started.

Help us deliver the next unit.