Impressions from our trip to Ukraine last week. We are committed to transparency and effectiveness in the use of donations made to us. This implies frequent direct coordination with our local partners: Is the aid getting through? Is the equipment working? How have needs changed?
Pulse oximeters are devices for measuring oxygen saturation in the blood and are an important safety factor in emergencies or during operations.
One of the particularly ugly aspects of the war in Ukraine is that rescue workers are systematically being targeted and killed on a daily basis.
We still occasionally receive donations in kind containing instruments from various surgical specialities. After checking and packing them properly, we send them to the Ukrainian centres where they are most urgently needed:
++++ Uninterruptible power supply in operation ++++ … After a long period of preparation, technicians at St Nicholas Children's Hospital were finally able to put the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) donated by us into operation.
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.