Some departments of Okhmatdyt hospital resume working
Pravda Ukraine
The Okhmatdyt children’s hospital which was struck in a Russian missile attack on 8 July has partially resumed its operation.
“Despite last week’s attack, we are glad to inform you that some departments of the Okhmatdyt hospital have resumed their operation. Today, an emergency department opened, which now accepts patients with surgical profiles.
Some cancer departments also resumed their operation, except the department of bone marrow transplantation – it temporarily operates at tte facilities of the Kyiv City Centre of Nephrology and Dialisis,” the hospital reported.
The departments of microsurgery, otolaryngology and maxillofacial surgery temporarily use the facilities of the First Regional Adult Hospital.
In addition to this, the following departments opened in Okhmatdyt:
- emergency medical aid;
- urgent surgery;
- abdominal surgery;
- thoracic surgery;
- orthopaedics and traumatology;
- the Radiology Centre;
- Children and Teenage Gynecology;
- Purulent surgery;
- Paediatrics;
- Infectious boxed department for small children;
- Endocrinology;
- Children’s neurology;
- Paediatric urology;
- Department of Anesthesiology;
- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care;
- Operations department.
Additionwlly, the clinic again provides assistance in the following departments of the neonatological profile:
- Intensive care of newborn children;
- Newborn surgery;
- Intensive nursing of deeply premature babies;
- Intensive nursing and early rehabilitation of children with perinatal pathology.
The hospital units also continue their work:
- Centre for Infectious Diseases, also known as the Clinic for the treatment of children with HIV/AIDS;
- Centre of medical, psychological, social and rehabilitation assistance to children;
- Blood Service Center;
- Hemostasis Pathology Centre.
Other units that recently resumed their work are:
- Laboratory of Medical Genetics;
- Ukrainian reference centre for laboratory diagnostics and metrology;
- Medical and genetic centre.
“We invite everyone who needs medical care to contact us. Despite the challenges, we continue to work for the health of our young patients,” says Okhmatdyt.
The Russians launched a strike on the Okhmatdyt National Children’s Specialised Hospital in Kyiv on 8 July. One of the buildings was destroyed. Several more buildings were damaged.
Doctors said many children had been injured by shards of glass. In total, 627 patients were at the Okhmatdyt hospital when it was struck.
Medics carried injured children to safety, ignoring their own injuries. One such doctor is Oleh Holubchenko, a paediatric surgeon at Okhmatdyt, as well as toxicologist Vitalii Its.
According to the State Emergency Service, there could have been more deaths in the Okhmatdyt if safety rules had not been followed. The mother of Dmytro, a cancer patient of the Okhmatdyt, can elaborate.
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