Medical Equipment for Young Patients from the Destroyed Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital
URGENT provided vital medical equipment (infusion and enteral feeding pumps, medical lamps, patient monitors, etc.) for the clinics in Kyiv, where children from the Okhmatdyt Hospital were taken for treatment after the Russian missile strike in the summer of 2024.
On 8 July 2024, a Russian cruise missile struck the Okhmatdyt medical center, the largest children's hospital in Ukraine and one which cares for some of the most critically ill young patients from around the country. Over 60% of the facility was destroyed, two adults were killed, and about 50 others were injured—including children.
That same day, approximately 100 patients were relocated to other medical facilities in Kyiv or the Kyiv region. Two of these hospitals contacted URGENT with a list of the equipment they desperately needed to cover the sudden influx of transferred patients.