Cradles of Hope: NEWS
Within the framework of the "New Life" project, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation has provided equipment for Neonatal Centre "Cradles of Hope" in Khmelnytsky
Continuing implementation of the program “Cradles of Hope” within the framework of the government project “New Life”, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation has provided equipment for the 30th neonatal centre “Cradles of Hope”. The official opening will take place on May 23, 2013, at Khmelnytsky Regional Hospital. The ceremony will be attended by Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Kostiantyn Gryshchenko and Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Iryna Akimova.
Opening the center in Khmelnytsky is a continuation of partnership of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the National Agency for Investment and Management of National Projects. The overall cost of the medical and computer equipment the Foundation handed over to the Intensive Care Department of Khmelnytsky Regional Hospital totals UAH 3 708 275.18. This is the second neonatal center that the Victor Pinchuk Foundation has equipped in Khmelnytsky.
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.
To date, 30 “Cradles of Hope” Neonatal Centers have been opened throughout Ukraine: in Chernihiv, Volodymyrets (Rivne region), Rivne, Lutsk, Poltava (2 centers), Dnipropetrovsk (2 centers), Kyiv (3 centers), Chernivtsi, Bakhchysarai, Izmail, Odesa, Simferopol (2 centers), Donetsk, Khmelnytsky (2 centers), Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolayiv, Ternopil, Sumy and Uzhgorod.
Since program launch, 219 803 infants have been born in partner hospitals, 36 372 of them were patients of the intensive care centers "Cradles of Hope". According to doctors, 18 677 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 86 713 581.00 (including UAH 48 563 179.90 spent on the joint project "New Life”).
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