"Cradles of Hope" is a program of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation on setting up specialized Neonatal Centres throughout Ukraine. Implementing the program the Victor Pinchuk Foundation pursues two major objectives: reducing infant mortality rate in the country and improving quality of life of the saved children; facilitating the State in transition to the international registration standards of newborns. In order to accomplish these tasks the Foundation makes exerts efforts to arrange necessary complex of medical services aimed at providing aid to newborns.
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation provides for the following within "Cradles of Hope" Program:
- hi-tech equipment required for newborns
- arranging trainings and seminars for physicians and nurses on new care technologies for newborns
- equipping "Cradles of Hope " Centres with interlinked computer work stations, fast Internet access.
Starting from 2006 in Chernihiv, the Cradles of Hope Program has set up the most up-to-date network of eighteen Neonatal Centres in different regions of Ukraine. The cutting edge medical equipment was acquired for the "Cradles of Hope" Centres in Chernihiv, Volodymyrets, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv (Amosov National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery and National Children’s Hospital “Okhmadyt” ), Ovruch, Chernivtsi, Bakhchisarai, Izmail, Odessa, Simferopil', Donetsk, Khmel'nytsk'yi, Zhytomyr, Cherkassy and Mykolaiv. The Program will keep on cooperating with the opened Centres.
MANAGEMENT
Project manager – Svetlana Gavrilenko.
INTERNET-RESOURCES
"Cradles of Hope" program
Opening of "Cradles of Hope Centre" in Khmel'nytsk'yi
EVENTS OF THE PROGRAM
All events of the program
