By Tetiana Kyryliuk | Project manager
We are extremely grateful to those who continue to help us financially. Russia continues to kill civilians and destroy our infrastructure, including health and education facilities.
On July 8, 2024, a tragedy occurred when Russian rockets hit the "OHMATDYT" children's multidisciplinary diagnostic and treatment facility in Kyiv. Two hospitals are located on the territory of this facility. There is another important medical institution - the State Institution "Scientific and Practical Medical Center of Children's Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine” at a distance of only 30 meters from the place of the missile hit.
In the operating rooms, complex operations were performed on children with congenital heart defects when an explosion occurred 30 meters from the building of the medical facility. In order to save children, doctors were forced to complete operations in inhumane conditions. Also, at the time of the attack, there were 22 children undergoing treatment in the building. All of them were transferred to the bomb shelter after the announcement of the air alert. At that time, there were 11 babies in the intensive care unit who could not be quickly transferred to the bomb shelter due to being connected to life support systems. Fortunately, the lives of the little patients were saved by timely safety measures and completely sandbagged windows.
"That morning, we started 4 operations. The youngest patient is only seven months old... And can you imagine that there is a missile attack that destroys absolutely everything around during the operation. Meanwhile, small children lie on operating tables. During the missile strike, 8 of my colleagues and I who worked in one of the operating rooms fell to the floor. A patient with an open wound on the heart was left on the operating table... Now this child is in an extremely difficult condition, we are doing everything possible to save his life. I hope we can do it. I don't understand how it is possible to destroy the life of a small child who is sinless...", - the director of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Ukrainian Children’s Cardiac Center, world-famous cardiac surgeon Ilya Yemets, recalls those scary moments.
Due to this tragedy 2 operating rooms, an intensive care unit, and an inpatient department were damaged in the hospital. Such destruction completely limits the institution's ability to provide the necessary medical care to children with cardiovascular diseases.
We, as a Charity Foundation "Your Support," take this institution under our wing to help restore its activities. We are working on restoring damaged departments and operating rooms, providing the hospital with the necessary medical equipment, and purchasing everything necessary according to the hospital's request.
Thank you for your continued contributions. Your efforts give doctors an important opportunity to save children and the hope of many families.
From February 24, 2022, the Charitable Foundation "Your Support" within the project «Help Ukraine! Stop the war» provides assistance to Ukrainian war victims. These include 135 medical institutions in Ukraine, more than 77 orphanages, and over 5,000 internally displaced persons who received temporary accommodation and support in the Shelter in Lviv.
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By Tetiana Kyryliuk | Project manager
By Tetiana Kyryliuk | Project manager
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