Helping young patients at Zaporizhzhya hospital

The Zaporizhia Regional Children's Clinical Hospital is providing medical assistance to children injured during the evacuation from Mariupol. The hospital is now receiving a large number of injured patients, children with gunshot wounds, children who spent almost a month in basements, children injured when buildings were destroyed. Many have suffered on the way in the evacuation convoy because Russian troops are shelling civilian cars and buses.

There are at least 5 children in the hospital intensive care unit in serious condition at all times. Another five are in the intensive care unit. The good news is that the hospital has agreed that after the children's condition stabilizes, they will be transported by special trains to the German Charite clinic via Lviv for further treatment and rehabilitation. This makes it possible to free up space for new patients and provide even more urgent medical care. Thanks to projects recently supported by philanthropists, we were able to provide the hospital with a modern operating table, new multifunctional beds, and a gurney.

The goal of this project is to purchase 2 ultramodern infusion machines and an aspirator. Infusion therapy is very important in the intensive care unit. It is because of infusion syringe pumps that patients are given medication therapy and dosed with drugs. Aspirators are used for suctioning fluid from the lungs during prolonged surgical and postoperative periods. Such devices should be kept in the possession of each patient.

It is important to give doctors, who heroically almost around the clock without leaving the hospital, all the tools they need to work, provide the hospital with the material and technical basis and just be grateful for everything they do. Real heroes!

*Photo credit: Emin Ozmen. Doctor and patient of Zaporizhia Regional Clinical Children's Hospital.