After several months of extensive planning and preparation, two special ventilators for newborns and premature babies have finally been put into operation at St Nicholas Pediatric Hospital in Lviv. They will supplement the urgently needed capacity of the intensive care unit there.
Although the Russian invaders are currently not advancing any further towards the city of Kharkiv, dozens of people are killed and injured every day as a result of the constant bombardment.
Since the end of 2023, we have been planning the installation of an uninterruptible power supply (#UPS) for the CT scanner at St Nicholas Hospital in #Lviv with the support of the #ElseKrönerFresenius Foundation.
We need a bedside measurement facility for haemoglobin and lactate for partners caring for seriously injured patients in eastern Ukraine. The unit serves to rapidly assess severe shock conditions. Targeted action saves lives in these situations.
The first donated Dräger patient monitors were handed over in #Kyiv yesterday. The picture shows the heads of the #emergency medicine clinics of City Hospital No. 12 and Shalimov Hospital at the handover. Other devices were delivered to the Center for Eye Microsurgery.
Sometimes our humanitarian mission is a bit like farming in the old days: it often takes months from the initial idea to the first communication with partners to the actual procurement and final fruition.
As previously reported, the Russian attacks on the Ukrainian power supply grid are continuing. Currently, our colleagues in the rescue service in Kharkiv only have power from the socket for hours at a time, if at all.
Nighttime rescue mission in Kharkiv yesterday. Due to power outage following a Russian strike on the local power plant, everything is dark: no traffic lights, no lights, no internet nor telephone.
The images are the same from all over Ukraine today. Since the conclusion of the Russian presidential elections, the biggest wave of air strikes since the beginning of the war has been rolling in.
One of our longest-running projects continues to be in high demand. We have recently been able to provide and deliver a large consignment of general surgical instruments to the Mykolayiv municipal hospital free of charge.