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.
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.