Press-releases
17.07.2012
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation has opened 6 Neonatal Centers "Cradles of Hope" under New Life National Project
As part of the "New Life" project in 2012, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation has already provided equipment for 6 Neonatal Centers "Cradles of Hope" in different regions of Ukraine.
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 centers for newborns under the Foundation’s program "Cradles of Hope" with a strategic mission to save life and health of every child born in Ukraine.
The "Cradle of Hope" program is in progress since June 2006.Overall, since its inception, 26 hospitals in 21 regions of Ukraine have been fitted out with modern medical equipment, to nurse infants. In addition, the program regularly offers workshops, seminars, field conferences featuring the best specialists from Ukraine and abroad.
To date, “Cradles of Hope” Neonatal Centers have been opened in Chernihiv, Volodymyrets (Rivne region), Lutsk, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk (2 centers), Kyiv (3 centers), Chernivtsi, Bakhchysarai, Izmail, Odesa, Simferopol, Donetsk, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolayiv, Ternopil, Sumy and Uzhgorod.
Since program launch, 163 335 infants have been born in partner hospitals, 28 242 of them were patients of the intensive care centers "Cradles of Hope". According to doctors, 13 287 babies were saved thanks, among other factors, to the equipment supplied by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
Total investment of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation into the "Cradles of Hope” since program launch amounts to UAH 58 497 375. 00 (including UAH 21 583 915. 32 spent on the joint project of "New Life”).
