Kryvyi Rih: Sunflower Scotland and Schira Sprava hospitalised an 83 years old refugee from Zaporizhzhia, using a Patient Transport van from Edinburgh.
Petro was born in 1941, and he experienced the terror of WWII. Today he almost became a victim of the new war: now it’s Russia killing innocent people in Ukraine. He was not shot or injured by shrapnel. Rather, he could not access medical care in critical health. Because of the war, hospitals in Ukraine are at the breaking point and cannot cope.
Petro and his family ran away from Zaporizhzhia, when their home was destroyed. They became refugees in Kryvyi Rih. Over the past weeks, the man developed critically low blood pressure of 90/60. His organs started failing due to the low blood circulation. His daughter phoned the state ambulance, but they said “no beds available” and refused to come. The family panicked.
Denis Sinkevych and Dmytro Levchenko – volunteers at Schira Sprava (a Kryvyi Rih charity) – answered the call. They used the Sunflower Patient Transport van, and brought the man to a local hospital. He is receiving treatment as we speak. He is not out of the woods yet, but at least he is looked after by qualified doctors.
Sunflower Scotland is a registered Scottish charity from Edinburgh. We partner with Shira Sprava, a registered charity from south Ukraine. Together, we launched a patient transport service. Sunflower provided the patient transport van, wheelchairs, a stretcher bed. The objective of this project is to help people in Kryvyi Rih and the neighbouring Kherson Region, where the state medical system leaves people behind.
The Patient Transport service is one of many projects we carry out in Ukraine. If you can, please support our work with a small donation. We can continue helping people only thanks to donors like you. Thank you very much!
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