Over 30 countries ready to provide medical treatment for children from Okhmatdyt hospital – Ukraine's Health Minister
Many European countries, as well as the United States, have expressed their readiness to provide medical treatment for Ukrainian children affected by the Russian attack on Kyiv’s Okhmatdyt hospital on 8 July.
Source: Viktor Liashko, Ukraine's Health Minister, on the national joint 24/7 newscast
Details: Liashko said 30 ambassadors from around the world had approached him and offered to help treat young Ukrainian patients.
"All the Baltic states [have contacted us]. Italy has already contacted us. Stella Kyriakides [European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety], who is coordinating all the assistance in the European Union, has contacted us. Poland and the US are ready to help. So we have a large number of offers," Liashko said.
The minister also noted that the patients have been moved to other hospitals in the capital. If necessary, they will be sent abroad.
"I urge parents whose children were being treated at Okhmatdyt at the time of the terrorist attack: contact your doctor.
He or she will send your data to the head of the hospital, discuss all the details, and offer you treatment options available in Ukraine. If we cannot provide all the necessary treatment here, it should be continued under the direct coordination of the Ministry of Health using medical evacuation," Liashko stressed.
The minister said the government has already worked out a mechanism to help sick children, and the Ministry of Health will take care of the paperwork.
"Sadly, diseases do not wait for the end of the war. This is an ongoing process, so doctors must act. Our main priority is to save lives, and the Ministry of Health will deal with the bureaucracy," Liashko said.
The application form to take part in the medical evacuation programme can be found here.
Background: Almost 630 children were at the Okhmatdyt hospital at the time of the missile strike. Almost a hundred of them have been evacuated to other medical facilities in the capital, while 68 continue to receive treatment in other departments of the hospital that survived the damage.
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