Kids with cancer in Ukraine shelter in hospital basements, hoping to evacuate

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Katie S. Phang
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“Staff members have made it into a game with the younger kids. Whenever the bomb sirens wail, the children are told they must run as fast as they can to the ‘dungeon,’ although the sickest kids who are on oxygen have to be left behind in their beds.”

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Kids with cancer in Ukraine shelter in hospital basements, hoping to evacuate
Their treatments have been interrupted by the conflict. If it continues, “our patients, they will die,” a Kyiv doctor said.
7:27 PM · Feb 28, 2022

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/kids-cancer-ukraine-shelter-hospital-basements-hoping-evacuate-rcna17939

Over the past five days, as Russia's invasion has continued, the basements of Ukraine's children's hospitals have become bomb shelters for the country's youngest cancer patients.

Thin mattresses, pillows and blankets cover the floors of underground hallways as the sound of explosions and gunfire can be heard above. Parents speak quiet reassurances to their sick children, encouraging them to eat or sleep.

Doctors and nurses try to provide the limited treatments they can, despite dwindling supplies of necessary medications, as well as food and water.

"These children suffer more because they need to stay alive to fight with the cancer — and this fight cannot wait," Dr. Lesia Lysytsia said over the phone from the basement of Okhmatdyt, a Kyiv children's hospital, the country's largest, where sirens warn of bombings every few hours and child victims of the battles are treated.

A number of kids have access to only a basic form of chemotherapy right now. Other treatments have been interrupted, raising concerns that the children could relapse, not achieve remission and grow sicker.

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[SheltieLover]

1. ...

[Skittles]

2. these people need real help

NOT prayers

[Cha]

3. Rt TY