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19 May 2009 14:39

Zhytomyr Oblast Children’s Hospital Gets UAH 125,000 in Equipment from Ukraine 3000 Foundation and Its Partners

May 19, 2009, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko, being on a working trip to Zhytomyr oblast, visited Zhytomyr Oblast Children’s Hospital. Among other participants of the event were Head of the ZhytomyrOSA Yuri Zabela, Head of the Oblast Council Vitaly Frantsuz, Director General of MacDonald’s Ukraine Jan Borden, President of the Friends of the Children Charitable Foundation Maryna Krysa, and representatives of local authorities, the hospital’s Board of Trustees, and Ukraine 3000 Foundation.

Kateryna Yushchenko toured the hospital premises, talked to little patients and their parents. She visited the newborns ICUm recently opened due to the hospital’s Board of Trustees.

The guests also met with medical staff and Head Physician Viktor Marchenko and the Board of Trustees members.

Addressing the audience, Mrs. Yushchenko described the Ukraine 3000 Foundation’s medical programs: Hospital to Hospital, Children’s Hospital of the Future, and Joy of the Childhood – Free Movements. She mentioned the Zhytomyr Oblast Children’s Hospital Board of Trustees’ active work and thanked them for caring about children’s health and will to help.

On behalf of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation and MacDonald’s Ukraine Company, Mrs. Yushchenko and Mr. Borden gave Dr. Marchenko a certificate for a newborn’s incubator.

This was a part of a series of events to provide equipment to Ukraine’s children’s hospitals as part of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation and MacDonald’s Ukraine’s joint action, World Children’s Day in MacDonald’s. The fifth action took place in 2008, raising a record-beating sum of UAH 1,607,000. The money was earmarked to purchase neonatology equipment for Ukraine’s children’s patient care institutions, in part, the Zhytomyr Oblast Children’s Hospital.

The cost of the incubator is over UAH 62,000.

In his speech Director General of MacDonald’s Ukraine Jan Borden emphasized the importance of supporting the community within which a socially responsible company works. He also thanked the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation for the long-standing fruitful cooperation.

The hospital also received a gift from the Foundation: 15 powerful digital hearing aids to distribute among children with impaired hearing. The total costs of this equipment is UAH 63,000.

Among other speakers were REALTO Company President Viktor Moskovchenko, Cardio Company Director Yuri Pohoretsky, and Head of the Zhytomyr Oblast Children’s Hospital Board of Trustees Tamara Oliynyk.

The Zhytomyr Oblast Children’s Hospital is a member of the Ukraine 3000 Foundation’s Hospital to Hospital program. It was founded in 1984 and has a bed capacity of 430. Eight specialized centers function at the hospital: Immuno-allergology, Onco-hematology, Neonatal, Rehabilitation of children with organic lesions of the nervous system and mental disturbances, Center for surgical correction of birth defects, Center to promote breastfeeding, Diabetes center, and Acute trauma center;

Within the framework of Hospital to Hospital program, Zhytomyr Oblast Children’s Hospital received from Ukraine 3000 Foundation charitable aid in the form of medical equipment, medicine, books and toys for playrooms to the total of almost UAH 310,000. Also, two of the hospital’s doctors went for a training to the European Surgical Institute (Hamburg, Germany).

In 2007, within the framework of Joy of the Childhood – Free Movements program, the hospital won the Second All-Ukrainian Grant Competition for Patient Care and Rehabilitation Centers for Children with Cerebral Palsy. The facility received medical equipment (Gravistat costumes in various sizes) to the total of almost UAH 20,000.