Ukraine’s largest children’s medical center was treating more than 600 patients at the time of Monday’s attack, which killed at least 44 people.
A memorial service has been held in kyiv for the victims of the Russian missile attack on a children’s hospital on Monday. A chamber orchestra played in the rubble of the kyiv building on Friday as part of the memorial service.
The largest children’s medical center in Ukraine served 627 patients at the time of the attack, in which at least 44 people died. Dozens of children already battling life-threatening illnesses were also injured.
Oksana Halak learned of her 2-year-old son Dmytro’s diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in early June. She immediately decided to treat him in Okhmatdyt, “because It is one of the best hospitals in Europe“.
She and Dmytro were at the hospital for treatment when sirens sounded throughout the city. They couldn’t run to the shelter, since the little boy was connected to an intravenous line. “It is vitally important not to disrupt these pathways,” Halak said. After the first explosions, The nurses helped them move to another room No windows, which was safer.
Shortly after they were evacuated to the National Cancer Institute, and now Dmytro is one of the 31 patients who, in the midst of a difficult fight against cancer, have to adapt to a new hospital in Kiev.
“The destroyed Okhmatdyt is the pain of the entire nation”declared the general director of the National Cancer Institute, Olena Yefimenko.
