Entrepreneur Olga Kiro announced the launch of a charity program in support of the Okhmatdyt National Children's Specialized Hospital. She said she was shocked by the data on the scale of child injuries, primarily due to collisions with electric scooters, Telegraf reported.
According to journalists, on May 30, the head of the emergency surgery department and acting medical director of Okhmatdyt, Roman Zhezhera, wrote on Facebook about the most common causes of injuries that he and his colleagues work with.
“The terrifying figures given in the publication do not leave one indifferent: in just one day, 34 children with injuries received on electric scooters ended up in Okhmatdyt, and six or seven of them with severe injuries. Now there are five children in the intensive care unit of the clinic after such “entertainment.” Collisions on electric scooters are no longer a childhood trauma, but a catastrophe with traumatic brain injuries, coma and months, but even years of rehabilitation,” said Olga Kiro, commenting on the data provided by doctors.
She said she was launching a charity program that would provide the clinic with dynamic structures to stabilize children. Such designs are complex equipment that is modified to suit the needs of each patient and costs hundreds of thousands of hryvnia.
According to Zhezhera, doctors do not have enough of these structures. Modern treatment of severe fractures also requires metal structures, plates and spinal fixators, the doctor noted.
Kiro called on parents to listen to Zhezhera’s words and rethink their attitude towards the safety of children, and entrepreneurs to join the charity project.
“Charity always matters, but during a war, when the healthcare system is working on the edge of what is possible, and doctors every day save children from “peaceful” injuries, each help takes on special weight. When doctors do not have resources, this is our common responsibility,” Olga Kiro emphasized.
