Sensors that monitor children's lives. 2

Sometimes, in order for a newborn premature baby to receive quality medical care, very small and innovative medical equipment is needed. In our case – we need oxygen sensors for pulse oximetry machines, which measure oxygen levels in a baby's blood and saturation. They are needed all the time and, unfortunately, they run out very quickly. The purpose of this project is to raise funds to purchase newborns' pulse rate and oxygen saturation monitoring devices for three Ukrainian hospitals which save children's lives every day: Odessa Regional Children's Clinical Hospital, Vinnytsia Regional Clinical Hospital named after M.I. Pirogovo, and Zaporizhzhya Regional Perinatal Center.

More than once we have placed projects to support newborns who are born in these hospitals. This theme is so acute and echoes 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 maternity hospitals.

The purpose of this project is to save the life and health of many babies. And their desperate mothers – to finally give them relatively peaceful nights and hope for a happy future for their babies. After all, it is impossible to monitor a newborn baby's vitals 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. Together let us make sure that hospital wards with a large number of premature babies have pulse and oxygen saturation monitors at all times.

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