Three partner centres of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation's Cradles of Hope project have received funds to repair equipment and purchase components for newborn intensive care units

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation's Cradles of Hope project continues to provide systematic support to perinatal centres across Ukraine: The Foundation allocates funds for the repair of equipment, components and consumables to ensure their uninterrupted operation. Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this support has been significantly increased, especially for medical institutions that continue to operate near the frontline. 

Recently, three centers of the Cradles of Hope project in Mykolaiv, Dnipro and Chernihiv have received assistance from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation: funding for equipment repairs and purchasing components for neonatal intensive care units. The equipment was purchased for the neonatal intensive care units of the three partner hospitals at the Chernihiv City Maternity Hospital, Mykolaiv Oblast Children's Clinical Hospital and Dnipro Regional Medical Center for Family Health at a total cost of UAH 328,000.

The Chernihiv City Maternity Hospital is the first Cradles of Hope center opened in 2006. This hospital provides highly qualified obstetric, gynaecological and neonatal care to residents of Chernihiv and the entire Chernihiv region. Since the beginning of Russia's military aggression, 4,200 babies have been born at the maternity hospital, 342 of whom were patients of the neonatal intensive care unit. The institution did not stop its work for a minute, and in the first most difficult months of the war, it provided assistance to women and babies in a bomb shelter for a long time. In 2022-2023, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, together with partners of the Ukraine Relief Fund, donated to the centre a non-invasive breathing apparatus and 3 systems for heating babies worth UAH 1.14 million.

Mykolaiv Oblast Children's Clinical Hospital has been a partner of the Cradles of Hope project for 15 years. This region is one of the few in Ukraine that does not have a regional perinatal center that would concentrate all the most difficult cases of miscarriage and preterm birth. Therefore, the neonatal center of this medical institution provides highly specialised care for newborns in Mykolaiv and the entire Mykolaiv region. Despite the difficult conditions in which the hospital operates, the team does its best to provide full medical care to newborns. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, more than 1,000 babies have needed intensive treatment and long-term nursing at the neonatal center of the regional children's hospital.  In 2022-2023, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, together with partners of the Ukraine Relief Fund, provided the hospital with a TECOTHERM NEO neonatal thermoregulation system and 4 patient heating systems worth UAH 1.66 million.

The perinatal center, which operates as part of the Dnipro Regional Medical Center for Family Health, has been a partner center of the Cradles of Hope project since 2012. Today, this Center is located in a close proximity to the war zone and provides 24/7 medical care to women and children from the occupied territories and dangerous regions. Since the beginning of the war, more than 6,000 babies have been born at the center, nearly 500 of whom required long-term treatment in the intensive care unit. In 2022-2023, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, together with partners of the Ukraine Relief Fund, donated a TECOTHERM NEO neonatal thermoregulation system and 4 patient heating systems worth UAH 1.62 million to the hospital.