Sensors that monitor children's lives

Sometimes, in order for a newborn prematurely born baby to receive quality medical care, you need very little and innovative medical equipment. In our case we need oxygen, temperature and ventilator sensors that measure the baby's blood oxygen level, temperature and saturation. They are needed all the time and, unfortunately, they run out very quickly. The purpose of this project is to raise money to purchase heart rate and oxygen saturation monitoring devices for newborns for the three Ukrainian hospitals which save children's lives every day: Volyn Region Children's Territorial Medical Association (Lutsk), Zaporizhia Region Perinatal Center and Virgin Mary Hospital in Sumy. 

We have more than once placed projects to support newborns who are born in these hospitals. This theme is so acute and resonates in the souls of good people, so we decided to publish another continuation of our project. After all, the sensors that are used around the clock in the work of nursing premature babies are in constant need of updating. We could say that they are consumables. But, unfortunately, state funding is not enough for a timely and stable supply of these materials to the maternity hospital.

The goal of this project is to keep many babies alive and healthy. And their desperate mothers – to finally give them relatively peaceful nights and hope for a happy future for their babies. After all, keeping track of a newborn baby's vitals is impossible without special sensors. They are indispensable in the process of nursing premature infants, because due to the immaturity of the body, children often have disorders of these functions, up to and including respiratory and cardiac arrest. Monitoring (control) of these functions is possible with the help of pulse oximeters. Existing technology makes it possible to save the life and health of our youngest patients. 

The quality of medical care is determined by the efficiency and safety of all technologies. Often, when expensive equipment or consumables are needed, charitable foundations lose heart because huge amounts of money are needed. But we have no moral right to risk a child's health just for lack of supplies. Let's do it together so that the Volyn regional children's territorial medical association (in Lutsk), the perinatal center in Zaporizhia and the clinical maternity hospital of Our Lady of Sumy, where so many premature babies are being treated, could always have sensors for pulse control and blood pressure. 

Your small but constant support will give many babies a chance to survive. Give them the gift of life, but joy!