The “BDayVyklyk: first breath” project has handed an infant breath resuscitator to the Kirovograd Oblast Hospital Perinatal Centre

Under the charity project “BDayVyklyk: first breath” initiated by Ukrainian Kateryna Sadova with support of the Ukrainian Philanthropic Marketplace, the seventh infant breath resuscitator NeoPuff TM RD-900 has been purchased for the Victor Pinchuk Foundation’s Cradles of Hope partner centre operating on the base of the Kirovograd Oblast Hospital Perinatal Centre. The UAH 125 365 value device has been handed and commissioned at the centre .

As of today, 7 devices have been already purchased under the “BDayVyklyk: first breath” project for Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Uzhgorod, Chernihiv, Khmelnytsky, Odessa and Kropyvnytsky (former Kirovograd). Additionally, it is planned to install NeoPuffs at Cradles of Hope partner centres in Vinnytsia, Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Khmelnytsky and Cherkassy. The project can be supported on the web site of the Ukrainian Philanthropic Marketplace.

Kateryna Pyzina, head of the newborn intensive care unit: “We are sincerely grateful to the project initiator Kateryna Sadova and all caring people who have donated their funds for the purchase of this device that is important to save children. This enables us to introduce the new advanced method of providing the breathing support to preterm babies onsite in the delivery room that has been already successfully introduced and used by our colleagues from other perinatal centres in Ukraine in their everyday practice”.

The perinatal centre within the Kirovograd Oblast Hospital was launched and started operating in January 2012 as part of the implementation of the “New Life” governmental project. It is a medical establishment offering third level specialized high-quality help to pregnant women having obstetric and extra-genital pathologies, lying in and recently delivered women and newborns of Kirovograd oblast and Kropyvnytsky city. The Victor Pinchuk Foundation contributed to the creation of the perinatal centre in 2012 by fully equipping the 6-bed capacity newborn intensive care unit. The Foundation’s overall investment in equipping this unit amounted to more than UAH 4.2 million. High obstetrics risk group pregnant women are sent to the perinatal centre for treatment and delivery: patients having diseases of cardiovascular system, lungs, renal system, endocrine diseases, neurological disturbances as well as those who have uterine scars, multiple fetation, recurrent miscarriage or complicated course of the current gestation. Preterm newborns are nursed at the centre, including those with extremely low weight at birth (500-1000 gram). Over the five years of operation (2012-2017), 9 334 children have been born in the establishment, including 949 babies who received help in the newborn intensive care unit.