As I heard the bells ringing, my heart raced and I wanted to feel the joy of the holiday, but the pain under my collarbone and the oppressive weakness in my whole body prevented me from doing so This is how each story of a child with cancer begins, spending Easter holiday within the walls of the hospital, because RAC has no holidays, no days…
Over the past month, with the help of Yves Vanroy, dozens of seriously ill children received emergency care:
- After long negotiations, agreed and paid a set of examinations and treatment in the clinic named after Raisa Gorbacheva in St. Petersburg. After long negotiations, a set of tests and treatments has been agreed and paid for at the Raisa Gorbachev Clinic in St. Petersburg for Karim Chaika, diagnosed with primary immunodeficiency disease. We were also able to buy for Karim a month's supply of Inpleit and Providge medications, without which the boy cannot do without.
- For Lerochka Kostina the treatment of rhabdomyosarcoma continues, for conducting 3 courses of chemotherapy we bought anti-tumor medication "Velbin";
- Mashenka Aleksanina needs monthly injections of the very expensive medicine Actemra. This month we were able to come to her family's aid again.
- Roma Vasilevsky has a very rare and congenital disease - Cartagena syndrome. It is expressed by severe respiratory failure. Roma was helped to buy a course of necessary medicines for inhalations.
- Tenichenko Alina was able to provide medication, the girl was admitted to the intensive care unit of Central Clinical Hospital 1 with bilateral pneumonia, which occurred on the background of the underlying disease - microcephaly;
- to treat complications after severe blocks of chemotherapy, we purchased Meronem, an effective and expensive antibiotic for Lisa Nasirova (acute myeloid leukemia), Diana Lavrova (acute lymphoblastic leukemia), and Yaroslava Maltseva (Hodgkin's lymphoma).
- organized logistics of bone marrow samples and their research in the molecular laboratory of the Dmitriy Rogachev Clinic. We organized logistics of bone marrow samples and their research in the molecular laboratory of the Dmitrij Rogachov Clinic for four our children - Diana Lavrova (acute lymphoblastic leukemia), Vanya Kulabuhov (acute lymphoblastic leukemia),Kira Zagreba (acute myeloid leukemia), Lisa Nasirova (acute myeloid leukemia);
- Provide assistance with delivery and payment for biopsy samples for immunohistochemical studies in the pathatomic departments of the clinics of the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital in Moscow, the Dmitriy Rogachev Center and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. This month we helped six children at once: Fedichak Fedor (brain tumor), Furdela Tanechka (pilocytic astrocytoma), Mukhin Ivan (neuroblastoma), Margarita Galichenko (malignant growth of the thyroid gland), Mironova Yana (ovarian tumor), Tupikin Artem (neck and mediastinum tumor), Vareshka Gavrina (liver tumor)
- two of our little wards - Sonyechka Kulikova (kidney sarcoma) and Sashenka Kasyanova (rhabdomyosarcoma) received help while being treated in Moscow clinics.
We organized and paid the trip for Sonya's family to the clinic named after D.Rogachov in Moscow. For Sasha's family we were able to organize and pay the trip to the clinic named after D.Rogachov, and we also needed help with medication and material aid for Sasha after the surgery. At the clinic named after Blokhin Sasha. Sasha's eyes are being saved at the Blokhin clinic.
Three departments and two orphanages received necessary medicine:
- For the departments of pediatric oncohematology at INVH. Gusak and the first surgery department of Donetsk Regional Children's Clinical Hospital purchased medicines for accompanying therapy, as well as all the necessary consumables.
- To provide emergency care to newborn babies with various heart defects, the Department of Newborn Pathology of the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital in Donetsk received a sufficient quantity of Vasaprotsan
- For young orphans from two orphanages in Donetsk, the Specialized Baby Home and the Teremok orphanage, we purchased and delivered the necessary medicine for the treatment and prevention of both seasonal and serious illnesses.
Thank you for your kindness and trust! Saving children's lives is not an easy task. But it's not so hard when you support us!