Breathe, you can't die!

And again about tuberculosis! Rather, about the fight against it, a terrible diagnosis, about which it is not only scary but sometimes embarrassing to speak out loud. Tuberculosis is still a disease that causes a mixture of horror and disgust among others. And this despite the fact that a "silent" tuberculosis bacterium, according to WHO, infected a third of the world's population. The number of operations in the Zaporizhia Regional Tuberculosis Dispensary carried out in 2018 is 170. For nine months of 2019, it is already 163. Not only human resources are involved in the fight against the disease, but also those remnants of technical progress that remained in the TB dispensary as an inheritance.

This wonderful handsome apparatus who stands so majestically in the center of the operating room is actually an old one. Artificial lung ventilation apparatus. The life of rescuers like it does not depend on age but on the frequency of exploitation. It is made it in 2004. The life span is five years. Obviously, at least ten years it should rest on the sidelines because instead of 12 thousand hours it worked all 35. But it is alone in the operating room of the Zaporizhzhya Regional Tuberculosis Dispensary. It was repaired 5 times since there is no possibility to replace it yet. And it can “die” forever at a completely inappropriate moment. And it’s not at all difficult to guess that it will lead to human tragedies. There is another one, in the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, which is also already 3 years old when it “plowed” its term and was repaired three times.

Here is such a gloomy reality. But even with such hopelessness, there is a way out! It is necessary to raise funds for a brand new device as soon as possible. Well, at least for one! In general, if by the rules, then the hospital needs one device in the operating room and six in the department of anesthesia and intensive care. This is a very serious issue, so the Charity Fund “Happy Child” begins to raise funds for a brand new medical ventilator. Its costing 450 000 UAH (about 20 000 USD). Yes, this is a considerable amount, so we count on the great support of people who understand the importance of the problem. This is the only way we can prevent tragedies!