We are often asked what will happen to children with cancer whose families remain in Ukraine due to various circumstances? In particular, because women do not want to leave their husbands. On the other hand, not all children urgently need to be evacuated abroad.
After all, in some cases, chemotherapy is performed once a week. And this can and should be done in Ukraine. Zaporuka believes we have to provide basic procedures and medical support in our country. At least what we can.
The major cancer clinics, like the National Cancer Institute, with which the foundation cooperated in Kyiv, are unable to provide a full range of services as they did before the war. However, there are local hospitals in relatively safe regions of Ukraine. And they can take on at least part of such procedures.
As an example, the City Children's Hospital in Khmelnytsky. It was this medical institution that we and our partners from Soleterre Onlus decided to quickly strengthen with medicines and the necessary equipment. So that the same doctors from the National Cancer Institute could come here and work here.
"We are ready if there would be something to work with," doctors tell us. "We'll manage to organize, you know us," we answer.
So, the first is done! A contract for the purchase of a portable ultrasound machine, aspirators, and biopsy needles in the amount of UAH 758,000 has been concluded. And this is just the beginning.
