The basements of Ukraine's children's hospitals have become bomb shelters for the country's youngest cancer patients. Thin mattresses, pillows and blankets cover the floors of underground hallways as the sound of explosions and gunfire can be heard above.
, the basements of Ukraine's children's hospitals have become bomb shelters for the country's youngest cancer patients.
"These children suffer more because they need to stay alive to fight with the cancer — and this fight cannot wait," Dr. Lesia Lysytsia said over the phone from the basement of Okhmatdyt, a Kyiv children's hospital, the country's largest, where sirens warn of bombings every few hours and child victims of the battles are treated.
Some kids' blood counts grew so low and supplies so short at Kyiv Regional Oncology Center that doctors started doing blood transfusions from parents to the children, said Julia Nogovitsyna, the program director at Tabletochki, the country's largest child cancer charity. Yet the number of patient beds in Lviv is shrinking, and crossing the border to Poland is difficult as hundreds of thousands of
“She is the most difficult one out of all patients,” said Nogovitsyna, who has been working to translate patients' records for the Polish doctors who will treat them. “I don’t know how she will survive this.” For most of the children, even though they are closer to the border, evacuating is an unlikely option because Polish hospitals would become overloaded and many families have other kids who aren't sick or care for elderly relatives.
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