Help Support Palliative Care Patients in Ukraine

Dear Friends, so far we have spent £24,283 to help our palliative care colleagues in Ukraine and neighboring countries to gett he help they need during the war. We all were hoping that peace would have come by now but it appears we need to be in for the long haul to ensure our patients there have the essential help they need including:

- Food

- Diapers

- Medicines

- Medical supplies

- counseling

Palliative care providers are really struggling and are so very appreciative of all the help they've received. Here are a few examples:

From the service in Irpin:

- food for 153 adult food sets and 30 sets of baby food.

- hygiene products, according to collected applications for 12 families and 2 local groups.

"All the wards note the appropriateness and quality of the sets, including thanks in social networks. Help is essential, because often in the same family there is a child with a disability and also a seriously ill, palliative person. The purchase of both food and hygiene products is a significant part of the budget, because many people have lost their jobs and live on welfare and social benefits. Also, a family with three children with disabilities (the eldest child is bed-ridden palliative patient) in the village received comprehensive assistance. The situation is very difficult. Systemic help is needed"

All these 6 families either have a child with severe, oncological or complex severe incurable disorders, or they have a child with a disability and a person who is still sick and on palliative care.

1 psychologist x 48 consultations for 3 month (each individual consultation.

2 psychologists = 96 consultations for 3 month (each individual consultation

• PtPics.docx (DOCX)

We are pleased to report that funds are arriving to help palliaitve care patients in Ukraine and surrounding countries! We are supporting hospice and palliative care programs in Ukraine through the All Ukrainian Association of Palliative and Hospice Care and the International Renaissance Foundation in Kiev. We also are supporting our colleagues at Hospice Casa Sperantei in Brazov Romania, and the Prima Homines Foundation for children in Poland.

We have been very fortunate to have received an emergency grant from GlobalGiving for $50,000 for our Ukraine appeal!!!

So far we've provided over $17,200 for items below (these are just examples)

Children's items - Nappies & pampers - Formula - Baby Food

Medical supplies - latex & surgical gloves - bandages - tape - plaster of paris - sutures - urine bags - syringes - etc

Medicines - Antibiotics - Pain relievers - IV fluids - Laxatives - Sterioids - etc

Food items - Rice - Cooking OIl - Baby Food

Transportation

Counseling sessions from psychologists

One of our recipients is the Regional Palliative Care Centre in Ivano-Frankivsk where they have 31 patients in hospice, including four patients who arrived from Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Dnipro as refugees, in addition to the patients being cared for at home. More adult and child patients are arriving from the East and they coordinate efforts with all the other hospices to meet bed needs. There is a significant shortage of bandages, diapers, & medicines that are not available now, and are relying on items purchased in Romania and shipped to the border for them to pick up. Funds from our appeal are helping to cover those & other costs.

We are still processing requests for funds from our palliative care colleagues in Ukraine, Romania, & Poland that are more than the funds we have received to date, so please continue to support these unmet needs!!