As part of the "New Life" project , the Victor Pinchuk Foundation has finished equipping Neonatal Centre "Cradles of Hope" in Zhytomyr

Continuing implementation of “Cradles of Hope” program, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in partnership with the national project “New Life”, has finished equipping neonatal intensive care and post-intensive nursing care unit for premature infants at Zhytomyr Regional Perinatal Centre.

In 2011 the Victor Pinchuk Foundation became a partner of the national project “New Life” initiated by the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, and made a commitment to supply intensive care units for newborns with modern medical equipment, allocating for this purpose UAH 100 million.

Within this partnership the Victor Pinchuk Foundation equips new intensive care units and completes fitting out previously established centres for newborns under the Foundation’s program "Cradles of Hope".

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation started cooperation with the Zhytomyr Regional Perinatal Centre in the framework of the “Cradles of Hope” in June 2008, opening in the hospital the first “Cradles of Hope” centre. In addition, for 4 years Zhytomyr centre has been a training base for the “Cradles of Hope” project, conducting workshops, seminars and specialized training courses for neonatologists, obstetricians, gynecologists and nurses from “Cradle of Hope” centres and other medical institutions of Ukraine.

As an official partner of the national project "New Life" the Foundation completed supplying neonatal intensive care and post-intensive nursing care unit for premature infants at Zhytomyr Regional Perinatal Centre with medical equipment valued at USD 2 114 630.74. 

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