The Victor Pinchuk Foundation has covered the cost of components and repair of equipment for the Sumy Cradles of Hope centre.

As part of its ongoing support for the Cradles of Hope programme to save the lives of every child born in Ukraine, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation has once again provided assistance to the neonatal intensive care unit of the Sumy Oblast Clinical Perinatal Centre by paying for the repair of a transport ventilator and its components in the amount of UAH 61 566.

This medical institution has been a partner of the Cradles of Hope Foundation's project since February 2010, when, as part of the development of the national network of neonatal centres of the same name, the Foundation provided the intensive care unit with sets of modern equipment for the care of preterm infants. Before the full-scale war, more than 2,600 babies were born at the Sumy OKCCC on average every year, of which about 200 needed medical care in the neonatal intensive care unit. 

Sumy region is a border region and was one of the first to experience the horrors of the invasion of the occupiers, being under constant air strikes and shelling. Due to the outflow of people from the Sumy region, the birth rate in the centre has dropped by almost 4 times since February 2022. Nevertheless, the perinatal centre has never stopped working, providing care to women and babies in life-threatening conditions. Over the three years of the great war, 2,006 babies were born here, of whom 216 were treated in the neonatal intensive care unit.

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation has been systematically supporting the institution in maintaining the equipment, repairing and replacing its components. During the war, to help the centre's heroic doctors save babies, the Foundation additionally purchased a set of transport incubator and ventilator, a patient vital signs monitor, 2 phototherapy lamps, diagnostic reagents for a gas analyser, 3 patient heating systems worth UAH 2.38 million with funding from the Ukraine Relief Fund.

‘The Victor Pinchuk Foundation has been a long-term partner of our institution since the Cradles of Hope neonatal centre was established in 2010, and every year, especially in times of war, it helps our little patients survive and grow up healthy,’ says Iryna Kostina, head of the neonatal intensive care unit. - ‘This time, thanks to the Foundation, we have repaired the TV-100 transport ventilator, received flow sensors for AVEA devices, neonatal sensors for the Nonin pulse oximeter and phototherapy glasses.

According to the doctors of the neonatal intensive care unit of the Sumy Oblast Clinical Perinatal Centre, the equipment donated by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation has saved 1,827 newborns over the 15 years of cooperation.