UKR - Medical support Dnipro hospitals

Context

• Dnipro is a city in central Ukraine, north of Zaporizhzhia and south of Cherkasy.
• Hospitals in the city receive wounded soldiers and civilians from the central sector. Many of them have been treated in Stabilisation Points and receive more advanced and specialised urgent care in Dnipro.
• Examples of this are: vacsular, neurological and burn-wound treatmens.
• The images on this page are from one of those hospitals - No. 16 - where a heavy load of wounded has been and is treated.
  

Local situation

The hospital in these photographs:

• has 4 operating theatres, in use 6 days out of 7, 23 hours out of 24.
• surgeons perform life saving and curative surgery in the domain of amputations, post-amputation treatment, vascular reconstruction, pneumo-surgery, neuro-surgery etcetera.
• due to the heavy load on the equipment, the hospital has fallen in disrepair, with high needs in the field of
  • surgery department (Operating Theatre equipment)
  • sterilisation
  • Intensive Care Unit (currently absent)
  • surgical laundry department
  • medical imagery
    

Sometimes, the situation is just dangerous for the doctors and medical staff.
Because of equipment failure (do to intense use, lack of spare parts, lack of budget for repairs),
the CT-scanner used to identify Shrapnel in the body of patients, does not communicate anymore with visualisation tools.

The surgical team uses a CT-Arch as an "Open X-Ray camera" exposing themselves for the duration of surgery to direct radiation.
No replacement for the machine yet, no protective equipment for the doctors.

Projects

In collaboration with the hospital staff and Rotary Dnipro, a number of projects has been identified and we are working on getting the materials, knowledge and funding:

1. Equipment of the surgical department: new Operating Theatre equipment, sterilisation, construction of post-Op / ICU and renewal of laundry equipment.
   
   
2. Development of a training for vascular bypass surgery for frontline doctors / medics: in a collaboration with Belgian and Ukrainian vascular surgeons, the objective is to develop training materials (e-learning, ...) for combat doctors to be able to perform vascular bypass surgery in the Stabilisation Points post-blast amputation. This procedure will limit vastly the number of wounded that require Dialysis post Tourniquet application.
   
   
3. Support to other hospitals in Dnipro: distribution of donated hospital / medical equipment and consumables to other Dnipro hospitals (for war wounds and other treatments).d
   

How to support

• Donation of medical equipment, primarily in the field of: general surgery, anesthaesia, orthopedics, neurology, vascular surgery, patient monitoring.
  
  
• Donation of specific medical equipment for surgical imaging, to allow surgeons to observe and guide the procedure (CT-scan, ultrasound, ...).
  
  
• Donation of consumables (surgical tools, external fixators, ...), bandages, etc.
  
  
• Financial support for the transport of these goods to Dnipro.
  
  
• Financial support for equipment that we cannot get through donations.

For financial support: please contact the project coordinator (info below) or info@rcgentzuid.be

You may donate directly to the account of our Club or we can try to open up the Rotary account at the Koning Boudewijn Stichting (King Boudewijn Foundation) in which case the donations above €40 are tax deductible.

Contact

Project coordinator: Luc ROMBOUT

(luc.rombout.rotary @ camail.be)

Our Rotary-to-Rotary actions have been going on from 26 February 2022 and are person-to-person, there are no external partners involved.
This guarantees full use and transparency of all funds, total operational accountability and direct information about the needs and solutions.
Rotary assistance is given under the condition of respect of the Geneva Conventions and International Law of Armed Conflicts.

Our beneficiaries explicitely confirm this.

Not a full hospital, but through donation by ZNA Stuivenberg, an Antwerp hospital that moves to a newly built site, we received a donation of medical equipment that we want to have 'in use' in Dnipro as soon as possible.

In total it involves 4 trailer-loads, with:

• 25 electrical hospital beds
• 12 electrical chairs for blood transfusion centre
• 1 new anesthaesia machine
• 3 medical imagery devices
• 1 laparoscopy tower
• 2 washer for laparoscopy scopes
  
• Stryker ER stretchers
• IV stands
• bedside tables
• medical refrigerators
• surgical equipment
• suture material
• bandages
• desinfectants
• wheelchairs
  
• etc.
• etc.
  

If you can support us in facilitating this transport:
e.g. transport companies driving back empty lorries, train container, ...
or funding for a commercial shipment (least preferred choice).

please reach out !