Meeting the head physician of our partner hospital in Lviv

We have had an intensive cooperation with the St. Nicholas Children's Hospital in Lviv since our first mission to Ukraine. This was right after the start of the full scale invasion in March 2023. The hospital has 440 beds, and in addition to the usual patient load of a supra-regional centre, it now also has to admit many children from other parts of Ukraine who can no longer be treated locally. These are seriously injured children, but also chronically ill or oncological patients. The equipment is good in itself. However, this once again shows how important it is to coordinate aid services on site and by someone familiar with the subject as well as the language. Often, parts of the equipment that come from different countries do not fit together. There is a lack of suitable spare parts and often also of the matching consumables. That is why we will still make the effort to coordinate directly with our partners on site.