Two infant breath resuscitators purchased for the Cradles of Hope centres in Khmelnytsky and Chernihiv under the project “BDayVyklyk: first breath”

Under the charity project “BDayVyklyk: first breath” initiated by Ukrainian Kateryna Sadova with support of the Ukrainian Philanthropic Marketplace, two more infant breath resuscitators NeoPuff TM RD-900 have been handed to the Victor Pinchuk Foundation’s Cradles of Hope partner centres. The NeoPuffs were commissioned in March 2018 in the centres operating on the base of the Chernihiv City Maternity Home and the Khmelnytsky Oblast Hospital Perinatal Centre.

Both medical establishments are leading in-patient delivery facilities in Khmelnytsky and Chernihiv oblasts, specialized in labours from women with heavy obstetrical, extragenital pathologies and early deliveries. More than 80% of small patients treated in the newborn intensive care units are preterm babies that need special care and the use of best medical nursing technologies.

As of today, 5 devices have been already purchased under the “BDayVyklyk: first breath” project for Ivano-Frnkivsk, Ternopil, Uzhgorod, Chernihiv and Khmelnytsky. Additionally, it is planned to install NeoPuffs at Cradles of Hope partner centres in Vinnytsia, Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Kropyvnytsky, Odessa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Khmelnytsky and Cherkassy.

Kateryna Sadova, the initiator of the charity project, is convinced that availability of such devices at maternity homes and perinatal centres of Ukraine will expand the professional capacity of doctors to provide quality help to preterm babies and help preserve their lives. She calls on all people who care to support the “BDayVyklyk: first breath” project at the Ukrainian Philanthropic Marketplace site.

The Neopuff device is intended to treat infants’ breath disorders and allows carrying out the Sustained Lung Inflation manoeuvre that is widely used in European countries and in the US that has already proven its high efficiency. The use of the breath resuscitator for preterm babies within the first, gold worth minutes of their life, decreases dramatically the need to apply the conventional artificial ventilation that implies trachea intubation, which results in a lesser number of complications related to a long artificial lung ventilation. The cost of each device is UAH 125 365.