Medications for Children`s Oncological Units

The total expenditures of the Tabletochki foundation for medicines and supplies in July-September 2019 amounted to $ 229309. $ 75054 we spent for targeted assistance for children whose families have applied to the foundation for help, and $ 151459 to help 17 children's oncology departments all over Ukraine. Administrative costs for the project amounted to $ 2797.

We have recently received a photo of a wardrobe full of medicines from Mykolaiv. Doctors of the oncohematology department of the children's regional hospital are very grateful to Tabletochki for not spending time on where to get the medicine, but can focus on treating patients.

We would like also to share with you a story oy a girl under our care and say thank you. Her victory is possible because your help!

A girl of 16 years old from the Dnipro region, the diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma. Now he is in the bone marrow transplantation department of Okhmatdet.

She is a beautiful, active, cheerful girl who likes many of her peers, loves social networks and communication. She dreams about how she will return home, see classmates, continue to study at school, and dreams about what she will do in the future. Her loving mother supports her, she tries to help her daughter in everything and charge her with optimism and faith in the victory over cancer.

The girl fell ill almost a year and a half ago, it began with a cold and a slight cough. The treatment did not help, it only got worse. The doctor sent for an x-ray, which showed a tumor between the lungs and the heart. During this time, the girl has undergone several chemotherapy courses and is now preparing for an auto stem cell transplant.

She writes to us:

"Hello, I want to thank you so much for your help. After 6 Beacopp blocks and 2 lgev blocks, my lymph nodes on my neck increased on the right side, I got paralytic strabismus after paralysis of n.abducens dexter. And only after 4 blocks with Adcetris, which you’ve bought for me my strabismus almost disappeared and the lymph nodes on the neck and subclavian region disappeared and the tumor between the heart and lungs decreased. Thank you, Tabletochki!”

And we thank you, our donors!

The total expenditures of the Tabletochki foundation for medicines and supplies in April-June 2019 amounted to $ 191412. Of these, $ 46807 went to targeted assistance for children who’s families have applied to the foundation for help, and $ 139939 to help 17 children's oncology departments all over Ukraine. Administrative costs for the project amounted to $ 4666.

During April-June 2019, the foundation purchased over 100 different drugs like Avastin, Avelox, Vancomycin,Dexamethasone, Exijad, Quamatel, Metropenem Vista, Oncospar, Revolad, Temomedak and many others.

And here is a story why it is so important to supply the children oncological units with all necessary drugs. A child of 10 months old with anemia Blackfan-Diamond was hospitalized with complaints of body temperature 37.2, anxiety. In the morning, the child’s condition worsened. Doctors urgently performed a lumbar puncture and neurosonography and diagnosed acute purulent meningoencephalitis. They began standard therapy, but after 2 days the number of cells in the cerebrospinal fluid in a child increased from 700 to 22,000 !!! (normally there should be up to 5 of them). The child was transferred to artificial lung ventilation. Doctors immediately started the best therapy from the one they had - Medopenem, Vancomycin, Levofloxacin, Zovirax - all the drugs were purchased by Tabletochki foundation. After 3 days the child began to recover.

This baby has a long way to recovery - courses of chemotherapy, bone marrow transplantation from an unrelated donor. But most importantly, he was reanimated and they gave him a chance to live. That’s what our foundation is working for. About 400 children with caner are under the care of the Tabletochki foundation every month.