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Children are also affected by the war drama in Ukraine. Hospitals are running out of drugs and food, and what’s more —there is a risk that small cancer patients will have to stop treatment. The Ministry of Health has announced that children from Ukrainian oncology departments and hospices will be transported to Poland and treated here.
- The attacks by s on Ukraine also affect hospitals, including children’s hospitals
- Children with cancer are in the worst situation and their further therapy is at risk
- We will organize help for Ukrainian cancer patients, including those from hospices — announces the Ministry of Health
- Drug programs will also be available for Ukrainian patients — said the head of the ministry, Adam Niedzielski
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Poland will provide help to children from Ukraine
Poland provides medical assistance to people coming from Ukraine. — Every citizen of Ukraine, regardless of whether he or she requires hospitalization, specialist treatment on an outpatient basis, or the help of a family doctor, has the opportunity to obtain assistance — Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski said during the Wednesday press conference.
Ad hoc assistance to people who have already arrived in our country is one thing. Another matter is helping children who require specialist care, including those who are still in Ukraine.
— When it comes to demanding children oncology treatment, we will also organize help. Such therapy cannot be interrupted, we are in contact with individual centers in Poland — said Deputy Minister of Health Waldemar Kraska. — Children from hospices will also go there. The activities will be coordinated at the level of the Ministry of Health — added.
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— Drug programs will also be available to people from Ukraine. People who require it will be able to receive help — said Niedzielski. — We also provide transport of these patients, medical emergency services are used. We have solutions that allow admission to the Children’s Health Center — added the head of the ministry.
Soon after, the deputy minister spoke about the transport of cancer children during a meeting of the Senate Health Committee. — These children will also be brought in our medical train. There will also be trains coming from Ukraine from several directions. We have a plan, we are waiting for synchronization with the Ukrainian side — said Waldemar Kraska.
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The dramatic situation of children in Ukraine
We have already written about the fact that the situation in hospitals, including children’s ones, is becoming more and more dramatic. Patients at Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital are relatively safe, but they are running out of medications and have no access to equipment. The hospital also needs baby food. Cancer patients face the need to discontinue therapy.
— These are patients who cannot be treated at home, they cannot survive without medication, without medical care and medical personnel — said the Reuters Agency chief surgeon of the hospital Volodymyr Zhovnir.
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— These children suffer more because they have to stay alive to fight cancer — and this fight cannot wait — she told nbcnews.com Dr. Łesia Łysycia from Ohmatdyt. Many children today only have access to basic chemotherapy. Other treatments have been discontinued, raising concerns that relapses, leading to death, are awaiting instead of the expected remission. — If this continues, our patients will die — underlines.
Ohmatdyt is the largest children’s hospital in Ukraine. Usually there are about 600 patients here, currently there are 200 of them. There are not only children with cancer here, but also those who have suffered from the bombing of the city. From time to time, a small patient is admitted to the surgical ward, requiring treatment from bullet wounds and shrapnel.
Volodymyr Zhovnir, chief surgeon, said that the hospital had accumulated enough basic medications for a month, but needed there is food for newborns and medicines needed for chronic diseases, such as insulin.
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