Following the explosion in Luhansk hospital No.7, 49 patients in grave condition need further treatment. The intensive care department and pulmonology service will operate in the city hospital No.1 for the period of restoration of the destroyed building. Rinat Akhmetov’s Foundation for Development of Ukraine will purchase portable and regular artificial respirators and higher-class anaesthetic inhaler to ensure normal operation of the departments and provide first aid to the patients and survivors. The equipment will be transferred to the hospital No.7 after the destroyed hospital building is restored. To purchase the equipment, the Foundation for Development of Ukraine increases the previously declared amount from UAH 1 million to UAH 2 million.

Anatoliy Zabolotny, Director of Rinat Akhmetov’s Foundation for Development of Ukraine: "On Tuesday, the Foundation initiated establishment of the Supervisory Board that analysed the needs for medical care for the period of restoration of the in-patient department in hospital No.7. We have obtained a list of urgently needed medical equipment, first and foremost, for the intensive care. It will be installed in the hospital No.1 in the shortest time. The patients must not interrupt their treatment, especially as pulmonology was among the core areas of the hospital No.7, and this type of treatment is particularly important during a flu epidemic. We will also help the families of casualties and survivors as promised. We will determine the amount of assistance at the Supervisory Board meeting this Friday, on 22 January. No one will be left without our support".

We remind that in the morning on 18 January the hospital No.7 in Luhansk suffered an explosion, which killed 16 people. Another 6 people were taken to hospital. Rinat Akhmetov, President of the Foundation for Development of Ukraine, in his address to the survivors and families of the casualties assured that the Foundation would take care of every survivor and every bereaved family. The help, including financial assistance, will be provided to every underage child, whose parents suffered in the explosion. Since 19 January an ad hoc Supervisory Board controls the evaluation and allocation of the assistance. The Board was set up by the Foundation and includes members of the city and regional authorities, the Foundation, the Red Cross, priests and journalists.

For more information about the situation in Luhansk, visit the Foundation's blog at: http://akhmetovfoundation.blogspot.com/ .

 
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Press-release

21/01/2010

Kiev