Children’s Center for Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
The Arlene Campbell Humanitarian Foundation would like to tell you more about one of the hospital's we work with, the Ukrainian Children's Cardiac Center (UCCC) also known as the Children's Center of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Центр дитячої кардіології і кардіохірургії, in Kyiv. Dr. Vitaliy Maxymenko was Arlene Campbell's oldest contact. Dr. Vitaliy Maxymenko's son is Dr. Andrii Maxymenko, who is the Chief Medical Director at the Ukrainian Children's Cardiac Center. Lena Denman, the President of the Arlene Campbell Humanitarian Foundation, met Andrii while he was still in medical school in 2000. He and a friend of his gave Lena a tour of Kyiv. In 2018, he showed Lena and her husband Drew the Children's Center of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery. Lena asked Andrii how things have changed for him since February, and his assistant was directed to share with her two specific stories that his hospital was proud of during this war. Andrii's Assistant wrote to Lena:
“On May 12, 2022, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky opened the new building of the Ukrainian Children's Cardiac Center (UCCC). He congratulated Illya Yemets, the General Director of UCCC, and the entire staff on this outstanding event in national medicine. The President noted that the UCCC is one of the leading cardiology clinics in Europe and in the world. He thanked the staff for continuing to work and operate both children and adults from the first day of the war.”
As the video I will share with you here is in Ukrainian, we want to share what Dr. Andrii Maxymenko says about one of his patients.
The boy is 12 and he had 3 heart operations. Finally, the doctors they got the boy doing well. He was living in an area that became occupied by Russian forces. The boy could not regularly take his medicine due to this occupation. Now the child requires a 4th heart operation, but that he will receive it soon. The doctors expect a positive outcome.
The boy has received his fourth surgery and is doing well at home now. Thank you for your continued support of the Arlene Campbell Humanitarian Foundation that allows us to send medical supplies and equipment to surgeons in Ukraine. Here is the video for you to watch:
Images of Aid Delivered in 2022:
Appreciation Videos:
Dr. Thachuk Vadim Petrovych, is the head of resuscitation at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Children’s Center for Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Центр дитячої кардіології і кардіохірургії. He recorded a message of gratitude in Kyiv today for the Arlene Campbell Humanitarian Foundation. This medicine that Dr. Thachuk Vadim Petrovych speaks of in this video was purchased and delivered due to your generous donations and grant funding from UMCOR- the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
Dr. Andrii Maxymenko, the Medical Director for the Center for Children's Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Центр дитячої кардіології і кардіохірургії thanks the Arlene Campbell Humanitarian Foundation for our assistance this year. We are grateful to our generous donors and grant funding from the UMCOR - United Methodist Committee On Relief that allows us to get medicine and medical supplies to the youngest Ukrainians.
100 Christmas Gifts Delivered to Children and Babies on December 27, 2022:
A doctor at the Children’s Center for Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery explains that there are even more gifts than are pictured here for their pediatric patients. She expresses gratitude to the Arlene Campbell Humanitarian Foundation for the gifts received.
