The Victor Pinchuk Foundation has purchased an Olympic Brainz Monitor electroencephalograph for the Kyiv Perinatal Centre

Within the framework of the Ukraine Relief Fund, a joint charitable initiative established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Eric and Wendy Schmidt and Schmidt Futures, Robert F. Smith and Vista Equity Partners, Andrew and Nicola Forrest Minderoo Foundation, Bill Ford, and General Atlantic Foundation, the Kyiv Perinatal Centre purchased an Olympic Brainz Monitor electroencephalograph made by the world's leading manufacturer NATUS (USA) for the needs of the newborn and infant intensive care unit and the surgical unit for newborns and infants. 

Since the beginning of its operation in 2012, the Perinatal Centre has been taking on the bulk of the most difficult cases of miscarriage and pregnancy pathology in Kyiv and the region, providing care to premature babies and newborns with complex pathologies.

Since the first day of the war, the institution has continued to provide highly specialised medical care to women and newborns. During the war, the centre delivered 8,829 babies (including 3,250 to internally displaced women), 8,555 children were born, 855 newborns required intensive care and long-term nursing in the newborn anaesthesiology and intensive care unit, including 305 newborns under 1,500 grams.

This year, the perinatal centre opened two new departments - an intensive care unit for newborns and young children with a visiting neonatal team and a 10-bed surgical unit for newborns and young children, where complex surgical interventions are performed on newborns (surgical correction of congenital malformations in newborns, gynaecological care for girls under 6 years of age).  

Since March of this year, the centre has been providing assistance to newborns in Kyiv who need therapeutic hypothermia and continuous neuromonitoring. Monitoring of brain functional activity is an extremely important component of the observation and treatment of preterm infants and newborns with complex pathologies, as it allows timely diagnosis of brain disorders and prompt adjustment of treatment to avoid possible neurological complications. From now on, this important component of medical care will be provided by a device for continuous electroencephalographic monitoring.

As part of the Ukraine Relief Fund's joint charitable initiative 280 units of medical equipment, other equipment and consumables worth UAH 60.5 million have been purchased for medical institutions providing care to newborn babies in 2022-2023. In particular, 67 medical institutions across Ukraine received 167 newborn heating systems, and 14 institutions in the frontline regions received sets of transport incubators and transport ventilators for the safe transportation of newborns and assistance in shelters.