Let Ruslan's life be long

"We get almost all medicines provided at the budget cost, but we have nothing from the equipment except for the old inhaler. There are no even bags to go to school", says our coordinator based on the conversation with Ruslan’s mother. This means that the help is urgently needed. The quality of daily treatment and the risks of developing serious infections and their complications depend on the availability of the equipment. Whether Ruslan's life is a long one depends on it. 

Ruslan was born with severe genetic disease – cystic fibrosis. It affects the whole body, complicating the work of the internal organs. To eat and grow you need to drink a handful of pills with every meal, even if it's just a sandwich. To breathe, you need to do inhalations and special exercises for expectoration of sputum, drainage massage and exercises with breathing simulators several times per day. It is necessary to control the oxygen level in the blood. It is necessary not only to clean the rooms but also to decontaminate them with a bactericidal lamp, sterilize all available equipment. It is necessary to have time... to live, to go to school, to communicate with friends, between all these troubles.

In fact, we cannot make Ruslan healthy. Today cystic fibrosis is considered to be incurable, although the research is ongoing. But we can make it easier for the boy and his family to live. If Ruslan has everything he needs for treatment, he will be stronger than the disease and will be able to withstand it.

Name: Khimenko Ruslan, 15.04.2013

City: Kropyvnytskyi

Diagnosis: cystic fibrosis with pancreatic insufficiency