I couldn't not come here.
This place is very special to me because within these hospital walls, I experienced one of the most challenging and pivotal periods in my life and my son's life.
The General Director of the National Children's Specialized Hospital Ohmatdyt, Volodymyr Zhovnir, showed me the consequences of the missile attack by russia on July 8, 2024.
It's hard to look at, but pessimism is a luxury we cannot afford.
Information:
Ohmatdyt is the largest children's hospital in Ukraine, with 620 beds, treating almost 20,000 children and performing around 10,000 operations annually. In 2020, the second phase of the new hospital building was opened.
Ohmatdyt is a modern medical and diagnostic institution that performs reconstructive and plastic surgeries, bone marrow transplants, surgical correction of complex congenital defects in newborns, neonatal care using advanced technologies, oncological neurosurgery, diagnostics and treatment of retinopathy in newborns, and has a powerful medical genetics center for diagnosing and treating rare hereditary and genetic diseases in children.
As a result of the missile attack on the children's specialized hospital Ohmatdyt, eight young patients were injured, and two adults, including Dr. Svitlana Lukianchuk, were killed. Over 300 people were injured.
The missile attack severely damaged the toxicology building with the department of chronic and acute intoxications, as well as the old and recently constructed surgical buildings.
In the old surgical building, almost all the windows were broken, two surgical and two somatic departments, the intensive care unit, and the operating block were significantly damaged. In the new building damaged eight surgical, five oncological, two intensive care units, the operating block, the radiology and radiation therapy departments.
The missile attack also damaged Ukraine's only oncological hematology laboratory and completely destroyed two electrical substations located on the hospital premises. Additionally, a missile hit the toxicology building where children were receiving dialysis.
The hospital's General Director, Volodymyr Zhovnir, expressed regret over the deaths and injuries caused by the russian missile attack and added, "I am tired of constantly saying that Russia is a terrorist state. We, Ukrainians, and the entire world that supports freedom must be stronger, must be able to repel the aggressor, must win, because without victory there will be no peace."
To date, the work of all departments, except for the bone marrow transplant and chronic dialysis departments, which have been temporarily relocated to other Kyiv hospitals, has been restored. The somatic and surgical departments and the emergency department are already operating. Windows have been replaced in the neonatal department, and a photo exhibition in the new building's lobby honors the brave work of our doctors during the russian attack.
I ask all readers and friends of Alwaysbusymama to join in raising funds for the rebuilding of the hospital.
The hospital's bank details are here.
We sincerely wish Ohmatdyt a speedy and complete rebuilding and we bow deeply to the team for their resilience, dedication to their profession, and every life of the young patients they have saved!
With love and faith in victory,
Alwaysbusymama