Hospitals urgently need medical equipment and supplies. Hospitals across the Ukraine are in urgent need of medical supplies, equipment and medication. Due to the country's economic crisis, financial support to medical and health services has abated. The whole public health sector is in a crisis. There is a lack of almost everything.
Doctors do their best, but it is very difficult to work without personnel and equipment.
Today these children suffer from lymphatic leukemia, tumors in the central nervous system, cancer in the thyroid glands, etc. Although the population of the Ukraine is approximately 53 million people, this unit of 40 beds is the only one in all of Ukraine which can provide specialist care. The doctors in Ukraine are skilled, but they are up against an uneven battle. At the Children's Oncological Unit, the hospital is deprived of just about everything - equipment, staffing, medicines and funds. Parents arriving from all over Ukraine live in the hospital and try to take care of the children as well as they can under the circumstances.