The Victor Pinchuk Foundation provided assistance to five partner centres of Cradles of Hope in Chernihiv, Poltava, Kherson, Lviv and Rivne

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation paid for equipment repairs and purchased components for the neonatal intensive care units of five partner centres of Cradle of Hope based at the Chernihiv City Maternity Hospital, Poltava City Children's Clinical Hospital, Kherson Regional Children's Clinical Hospital, Lviv and Rivne Regional Perinatal Centres, at a total cost of UAH 768,000.

The Foundation continues to systematically support the Cradles of Hope centres, allocating funds annually for equipment repairs, components and consumables to ensure their smooth operation. During the war, this assistance was significantly increased, especially for medical facilities that continue to operate in close proximity to the front line or provide assistance to a large number of internally displaced persons.

Chernihiv City Maternity Hospital is a long-standing partner healthcare institution, where the first Cradle of Hope centre was opened in June 2006. The maternity hospital provides highly qualified obstetric, gynaecological and neonatal care to residents of Chernihiv and the entire Chernihiv region. Since the start of full-scale military aggression, it has not stopped working for a minute, providing medical care to women and babies in the basement of the maternity hospital during the first months. This year, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation restored the operation of compressors, ventilators, infusion syringe pumps and a transport incubator.

The Poltava City Children's Clinical Hospital has been a partner of the Cradles of Hope project since 2008. The centre of the same name was opened as part of the anaesthesiology and intensive care unit, which provides assistance to newborns with surgical pathologies and somatic diseases in Poltava and the Poltava region. The treatment process for such complex patients is quite lengthy, and all the equipment provided by the Foundation operates almost continuously and therefore requires periodic repair and maintenance with replacement of components. The Foundation has repaired two artificial ventilation devices and purchased the necessary materials for their continued uninterrupted operation.

The Kherson Regional Children's Clinical Hospital – a partner centre of Cradle of Hope – has been operating as part of the neonatal intensive care unit since 2010. Despite the difficult conditions caused by military action, the hospital staff are doing everything possible to provide quality medical care to newborns. The hospital survived the occupation and was damaged three times by rocket and drone attacks, but continues to save children every day. To ensure the operation of artificial lung ventilation devices, the Foundation purchased and donated five sets of breathing circuits.

The Rivne Regional Perinatal Centre has been a partner of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation since 2013 as part of the Cradles of Hope project. It is a multidisciplinary medical facility that provides qualified medical care to all seriously ill pregnant women of reproductive age and their newborn children with perinatal pathology living in Rivne and Rivne region, as well as from all over Ukraine, and, under martial law, to patients from occupied territories and internally displaced persons, mainly from the Kherson, Mykolaiv, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The Fund has purchased a new microconvex sensor for ultrasound examination of the youngest patients, which will significantly improve the level of diagnosis of diseases in the centre's youngest patients.

The Lviv Regional Clinical Perinatal Centre began cooperating with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation on the Cradles of Hope project in 2018. Today, it is one of the most powerful perinatal centres in the country. It provides specialised medical care to pregnant women, new mothers and infants with various pathologies, as well as premature babies and patients with reproductive health disorders from all over Ukraine, including internally displaced persons. The neonatal intensive care unit received 11 flow sensors from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, without which it would be impossible to provide quality respiratory therapy to infants in critical condition.

Every year, around 900 newborns who were born prematurely or had complex pathologies at birth receive a chance for a full and healthy life at these five Cradle of Hope centres. Thanks to the assistance received, specialists will be able to closely monitor the condition of infants, take the necessary medical measures in a timely manner, provide high-quality medical care and save their lives.