Okhmatdet partially resumed work: which departments are open
17 July 2024 09:42
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The Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv has partially resumed operations after the Russian missile attack on 8 July. This was reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to the hospital‘s press service.
“Despite last week’s attack, we are pleased to announce that some departments of Okhmatdyt have already resumed their work. The emergency department has reopened and is now also treating surgical patients. Some of the oncology departments have returned to work, except for the bone marrow transplantation department, which is temporarily operating at the Kyiv City Centre for Nephrology and Dialysis,”
– the statement said.
It is also noted that the departments of microsurgery, otolaryngology and maxillofacial surgery are temporarily operating on the basis of the First Regional Adult Hospital.
These are the departments that are already operating at Okhmatdyt:
- Emergency medical care
- Urgent surgery
- Abdominal surgery
- Thoracic surgery
- Orthopaedics and traumatology
- Centre of radiology
- Oncology departments (except for bone marrow transplantation)
- Children and adolescent gynaecology
- Purulent surgery
- Paediatrics
- Infectious boxed ward for young children
- Endocrinology
- Paediatric neurology
- Paediatric urology
- Department of anaesthesiology
- Department of anaesthesiology and intensive care
- Operating department
- Department of endoscopy with a functional unit
- Acute rehabilitation department
There are also neonatological departments:
- Intensive care of newborns
- Surgery of newborns
- Intensive care of profoundly premature infants
- Intensive care and early rehabilitation of children with perinatal pathology.
They also continue their work: The Centre for Infectious Diseases and the Clinic for the Treatment of Children with HIV/AIDS; the Centre for Medical, Psychological, Social and Rehabilitation Assistance to Children; the Blood Service Centre and the Centre for Hemostasis Pathology.
Recently, the Medical Genetics Laboratory and the Ukrainian Reference Centre for Laboratory Diagnostics and Metrology; Medical Genetic Centre have resumed work.
Earlier, Health Minister Viktor Liashko said that two buildings of the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital would be demolished because they were beyond repair.
Russia’s missile attack on Okhmatdyt hospital on 8 July
on 8 July 2024, during another massive missile attack during the Russian-Ukrainian war, the hospital suffered significant damage from a Russian X-101 cruise missile strike. The strike damaged the hospital’s buildings, destroyed some of the medical facility’s buildings, smashed windows and glass, and caused casualties.
The Russians destroyed the building of the Toxicology Department, where seriously ill children were on dialysis, five oncology departments, ten surgical departments, two somatic departments, an intensive care unit, two intensive care units, operating units, radiotherapy and radiotherapy departments, and three other buildings were damaged. Two electrical substations that powered the hospital’s entire infrastructure were also destroyed.
As of mid-day, two adults (one of them a doctor) and seven children were known to have been killed and injured. on 10 July, a boy died who was in critical condition in the intensive care unit at the time of the attack on Okhmatdyt on 8 July.
on 9 July 2024, the director of Okhmatdyt, Volodymyr Zhovnir, addressed the UN Security Council. In his speech, he stated that at the time of the attack, about 1,200 people were in the hospital and 3 complex operations were underway. The attack killed 2 people and injured about 300, including 8 children. He also noted that the attack damaged 24 departments, which will limit the ability to provide quality medical services to those in need.
