Cradles of Hope: NEWS
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation has opened a Cradles of Hope neonatal centre in Vinnytsia
On 6 June 2017, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation opened the 33rd Cradles of Hope Neonatal Centre in Vinnytsia, on the base of the M.Pirogov Regional Clinic Hospital’s Perinatal Centre.
By opening the Cradles of hope centre in Vinnytsia, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation makes another step in implementing the cognominal project to establish a nation-wide network of neonatal centres aiming at reducing the infant mortality rate in Ukraine. Over more than 10 years of existence of the programme, UAH 93 016 893 (USD 13 million) has been invested, and 32 Cradles of Hope centres have been provided with up-to-date medical equipment in almost all the regions of Ukraine.
The overall cost of the medical and computer equipment provided by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation to the Vinnytsia Regional Clinic Hospital’s Newborn Intensive Care Unit is UAH 4.8 million.
The Vinnytsia Oblast Clinical Hospital assumes a major load of deliveries from high risk group women and preterm deliveries. As an average, the overall yearly number of deliveries is 1500. The number of preterm deliveries is increasing continuously, and therefore the number of the preterm infants with an extremely low weight (600 to 999 gram) grows. New-born with the most serious cases receive help at the New-born Intensive Care Unit where 350 to 400 children are treated annually, and the issue of lack of medical equipment to take care of such babies has been quite critical up to now.
Victor Pinchuk, philanthropist and businessman: “It is well known all over the world that there is no state which can solve independently the social problems in education, healthcare and other fields. That is why the responsibility lies, among other, on Ukrainian business. Today we are opening the 33rd Cradle of Hope Center, and I hope that the Vinnytsia citizens will feel themselves a few steps closer to Europe. These are the best world standards and the better quality of life for small Ukrainians. We are investing in the future of the country.”
Since June 2006, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation has opened 32 “Cradles of Hope” centres in Chernihiv, Volodymyrets (Rivne region), Rivne, Lutsk, Poltava (2 centres), Dnipro (2 centers), Kyiv (3 centers), Chernivtsi, Bakhchysarai, Izmail, Odesa, Simferopol (2 centres), Donetsk, Khmelnytsky (2 centres), Cherkasy, Kropyvnytsky, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolayiv, Ternopil, Sumy, Uzhgorod, Lugansk and Zaporizhzhia.
Over the period since 2006 to the 1st quarter 2017, 458 046 infants have been born in partner hospitals, including 68 536 new-born that were patients of the intensive care centres “Cradles of Hope”. According to doctors, 39 259 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 93 016 893 (USD 13 million).
