April 23, 2024
This past week our December Medical Supply Shipment arrived at the Kharkiv Regional Clinical Hospital, shipped courtesy of our good friends at RocMaidan. Thank you RocMaidan!
As you may recall, this shipment included 270 lbs (123 kg) of medical tube feeding formula used for patients who have had a gastrostomy tube placed due to an injury and illness, and need a way to receive nutrition during their recovery. Also included were supplies to care for patients who have a tracheostomy placed.
We’ve received more video from our colleagues at the Kharkiv City Clinical Children’s Hospital No. 16 about the $10,000 shipment of equipment and medicines they’ve received, donated by Rochester’s own Wegmans. Check out the video below from our YouTube channel, where you can see some of the equipment that was provided: a bactericidal sterilizer system, an EKG machine, a cooler bag for transporting blood products, and a urinalysis machine. All being put to good use in Kharkiv!
Staff at the Kharkiv City Clinical Children’s Hospital No. 16 receiving the Wegmans Medical Aid Shipment.
We have great news! Back in June, Wegmans the famous supermarket chain headquartered here in Rochester, NY, donated $10,000 toward our mission to provide medicines and supplies to Ukrainian hospitals.
This week, we delivered! Working with our partners at the Future For Ukraine Foundation, we purchased supplies and medications requested by the Kharkiv City Clinical Children’s Hospital No.
SAVE THE DATE! OCTOBER 5, 2022. We couldn’t do what we do without our donors and the amazing community support we are receiving. Every fundraising event brings us one step farther on our mission to deliver medicines and supplies to Ukrainian hospitals. We have so far completed 17 projects (shipments of medicines and medical supplies from the US or transfers of funds to purchase medicines and/or medical supplies in Poland and Ukraine), and have reached hospitals in multiple towns and cities in Ukraine.
On September 22, 2022 the Ukraine Medical Relief Fund spent the evening at Polska Chata, simply the best Polish restaurant and deli in Rochester, NY. The evening was so successful, the crowd so welcoming, (and the food so good!) that we came back again during their Friday Fish Fry on September 23. Polska Chata generously donated all proceeds from the desserts sold on those evenings!
Please enjoy this short video about the fundraiser on our YouTube channel:
Ukrainians aren’t only allergic to Russian occupation. There may also exist environmental allergies and asthma, and these can be dangerous for your health too.
When Dr. Olga Grygorieva visited us, she traveled back to Kharkiv with a shipment of allergy and asthma medications, examples of which we had shipped previously and were so effective her patients requested more.
This past week the medications were distributed to the families and patients cared for at the Children’s Polyclinic No.
Our donors are amazing. In a few short weeks we’ve been able to raise several thousand dollars toward the purchase of a used ambulance for the Kharkiv Regional Children’s Hospital No. 1. Of the $14,000 needed, we have crossed the $12,000 line. We are nearly there!
This past weekend we spent time with Pediatric Urgent Care of Rochester at their Back to School Health Fair, and raised enough money to fill that ambulance with its first tank full of diesel.