Alona Lebedieva’s CF started to renovate premises of Kyiv City children’s hospital of infectious diseases №1

Date : March 19, 2018

“Alona Lebedieva’s charity foundation “Aurum” at the request of the head doctor of Kyiv City Children’s hospital of infectious diseases Yuriy Kozhara started to renovate premises of the department of surgery of the hospital.

“At present, state and municipal children’s hospitals of Ukraine require a complete modernization,” said Alona Lebedieva, the founder of “Alona Lebedieva’s Charity foundation “Aurum”. “Our foundation specializes in providing assistance with the modernization of material and technical resources to medical centres. Therefore, we could not ignore the request of Yuriy Kozhara. During January 2018, the building was inspected and, considering first priority needs of the hospital, the volume of works was defined,” highlighted Alona Lebedieva.

According to the head doctor, the hospital contains 450 beds, currently has 20 specialized departments, among which are a department of infectious disease, department for treatment of acute respiratory viral infection and its complications, neurology, urology, nephrology, hemodialysis, neonatal pathologies and surgery departments. There are hospital-based departments of the National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (NMAPE) named after P.L. Shupyk and a children’s unit of the Ukrainian Research Institute of Urology.

“In cooperation with the Kyiv City State Administration, we are about to finish works on transforming our hospital into a hospital of intensive treatment”, said Yuriy Kozhara. “But we are still in urgent need of benefactors’ help. We are grateful to all representatives of the foundation for a sincere desire to help the hospital and, first of all, to help children who above all need this help.”

By the way, international medical practice claims that unsatisfactory conditions of wards and old furniture are the main reasons for high incidence of hospital-acquired infections among patients.

According to Alona Lebedieva, all preparatory works were completed, and the foundation started to carry out renovations.