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.
Join us this Saturday, September 10, 2022 at the Back to School Health Fair sponsored by Pediatric Urgent Care of Rochester! We will be on site from 12 – 4 pm. Come support our mission to deliver medications and supplies to Ukrainian hospitals, and you can also participate in the fun activities of the Health Fair that will include:
Games & Activities Arts & Crafts Local Community vendors Ice cream sundaes Music Face painting We will be raising money specifically toward purchasing a used ambulance for the Kharkiv Regional Children’s Hospital No.
The Ukraine Medical Relief Fund was in the news again a couple of times last week.
WXXI, our local public radio station, did a story about our efforts to deliver medications and supplies to Ukrainian hospitals. You can read the story here.
Drs. Alex Paciorkowski, Olga Grygorieva, and Yuliya Snyder.
And our local NBC affiliate, Channel 10, released a video that you can watch here.
An important event this past week was also the brief visit to Rochester of our colleague, Dr.
SAVE THE DATE! SEPTEMBER 22, 2022. Polska Chata is Rochester’s premiere Polish restaurant and deli. They serve amazing food, and have something for everyone.
Join us on September 22, 2022 from 4 – 8 pm. We will have a selection of unique gifts available for donors, including memorabilia from Ukraine and t-shirts.
There will be a special Ukrainian dessert for sale – and all proceeds go to support our efforts.
The Ukraine Medical Relief Fund has been very busy as of late, doing a lot of outreach and making connections, fundraising, as well as responding to requests from Ukrainian hospitals for medications and supplies, and organizing shipments. Recently, a volunteer traveling to Poland offered to carry a suitcase with donated medications for us – and how could we turn that down?
Last week, the suitcase was picked up in Poland and arrived to Dr.
We have received a request from the Kharkiv Regional Children’s Hospital No. 1 for an ambulance to transport sick and injured pediatric patients to their emergency room. Through our contacts we have found a used ambulance, located in France, and it’s a real beauty.
It’s a 2017 vehicle, fully equipped for patient transport, and only has 280,000 km on the clock. The asking price is $14,000, which is very reasonable given some other vehicles we’ve looked at that cost more but are not fully equipped.
On August 6, 2022 the Ukraine Medical Relief Fund held a fundraising event hosted by Three Heads Brewing, here in our very own Rochester, NY! We are thrilled that we had a great turnout, and we thank our new friends and old for coming by to support Ukraine and our work. Our donors make what we do possible, and between the raffle, silent auction, and donations through our website we raised several thousand dollars that we will turn into medicines and supplies for Ukrainian hospitals!