September 28, 2024
Great news! Back in January we raised $21,975 to deliver medical supplies and automatic electronic defibrillators (AEDs) to frontline ambulances in Ukraine. It has taken several months, but finally we can report the delivery from Poland to Ukraine of 11 BeneHeart C1A AEDs and a BeneHeart D30 AED. These AEDs have been installed in frontline ambulances operated by the rescue service of the Red Cross of Ukraine.
We would like to again thank our many donors, and especially our Platinum Sponsors Wegmans and aTonalHits, our Silver Sponsors The Rochester Academy of Medicine, and our Bronze Sponsors Allison L. Giordano, MD and The Ukrainian Federal Credit Union for their incredible support in making this important delivery possible.
This past week our partner Future for Ukraine Foundation delivered the second part of the project funded by the winter concert organized by 8th grade students at Allendale-Columbia School together with classical musicians Katha Zinn and Illya Filshtinskiy (@aTonalHits).
FFU delivered hospital equipment that had been requested by the Children’s Clinical Hospital No. 9 in the capital city, Kyiv. The hospital provides a broad range of pediatric medical and surgical subspecialty services. Our delivery included glucometers, child-sized blood pressure cuffs, CPAP machines, laryngoscopes, tracheotomy kits, and pediatric floor scales for weighing patients. These items will be used to provide care for children in the hospital’s palliative care program. This is our first project delivering to hospitals in Kyiv, keeping with our mission to reach hospitals all across Ukraine.
Last week our partners at Future for Ukraine Foundation delivered the first part of the project funded by the winter concert organized by 8th grade students at Allendale-Columbia School together with classical musicians Katha Zinn and Illya Filshtinskiy (@aTonalHits). FFU delivered hospital beds with specialized mattresses designed to aid rehabilitation from orthopedic injuries to the University Clinic of the Bohomolets National Medical University, in Kyiv. These beds will be used in the care of soldiers wounded on the frontlines, and we are honored to make this contribution possible for Ukraine’s defenders.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) today issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation and Maria Lvova-Belova, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation. They are charged with the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (under articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute).
In January 2023, pediatric oncologists at the Kharkiv Children’s Hospital No. 16 reached out to the Ukraine Medical Relief Fund asking for help purchasing an Abbott i1000 immunochemical analysis machine for their pediatric cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. The machine is used to measure drug levels to help avoid side-effects and drug toxicity during treatment. Previously, these patients were sent from Kharkiv to Kyiv for their care, but the activities of Ukraine’s terrorist neighbor have made it impossible to transfer these patients safely. Therefore, they needed one of these machines in their own hospital so their patients could continue to receive life-saving care.
Not everything always goes according to plan. Back in October 2022 we sent three boxes of medical supplies to France with the intention that they would arrive in time to be placed in the ambulance we purchased and delivered to the Kharkiv Children’s Regional Hospital. The boxes contained $1900 worth of wound care supplies, personal hygiene items, as well as flashlights. Part of the shipment was intended for the hospital in Balakliya, in the Kharkiv region liberated from the invaders last September.
We have more wonderful news to share with you. This week we delivered three electricity generators and three space heaters, as requested, to the Kharkiv Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital. As you are aware, the terrorist state has continually targeted civilian energy infrastructure throughout Ukraine this winter, and Kharkiv has been especially affected. Outages of electricity and heat negatively impact all of the normal operations of hospitals, which do not have the back-up infrastructure to meet challenges on this scale.