The Ministry of Health of Ukraine has released information on the funds raised to rebuild the National Children’s Specialised Hospital Okhmatdyt after the missile strike. The total amount reached about UAH 1.6 billion, including medical equipment worth more than UAH 400 million, reports Komersant ukrainskyi
citing the Health Ministry’s press service.
The funds came from various sources and were distributed as follows:
- uAH 326 million directly to the hospital’s account, including UAH 1 million from the Lithuanian government.
- uAH 379 million to the account of the Omkhatdyt – Healthy Childhood Charitable Foundation. We are currently negotiating the transparent use of these funds under the supervision of the Recovery Council.
- Over UAH 320 million was raised by the joint efforts of the United24 platform and Monobank. These funds have been transferred to the NBU account assigned to the Ministry of Health.
- The Howard G. Buffett Foundation has allocated $11.2 million to purchase new medical equipment to replace damaged ones.
- The Government of Ukraine allocated UAH 100 million from the state budget.
The Ministry of Health stressed that not a single penny of the funds raised has been spent yet.
To ensure the transparency of the reconstruction process, the Okhmatdyt Reconstruction Council was set up, consisting of 15 people. Among them are representatives of major donors, international organisations, diplomatic missions, the public, and one representative from the Ministry of Health and Okhmatdyt.
Yesterday, the Board held its first meeting to elect its leadership. Inna Ivanenko, Executive Director of the CF “Patients of Ukraine”, was elected as the Head of the Council. The main issue of discussion at the meeting was the reconstruction of the destroyed hospital corps.
Today the Board of Recovery will hold its next meeting.
“Okhmatdyt 2.0 will definitely be better and more modern, able to save even more children’s lives”
HEALTH MINISTRY
Russian missile attack on Okhmatdyt hospital on 8 July
on 8 July 2024, Russia attacked Okhmatdyt with an X-101 cruise missile. The strike damaged the hospital’s buildings, destroyed some of the medical facility’s buildings, smashed windows and glass, and caused injuries.
The Russians destroyed the building of the Toxicology Department, where seriously ill children were on dialysis, five oncology departments, ten surgical departments, two somatic departments, an intensive care unit, two intensive care units, operating units, radiotherapy and radiotherapy departments, and three other buildings were damaged. Two electrical substations that powered the entire hospital infrastructure were also destroyed. In total, 24 departments were damaged.
At the time of the strike, the hospital had about 1,200 patients and was performing 3 complex surgeries. The attack killed 2 people and injured about 300, including 8 children. He also noted that the attack damaged 24 departments, which will limit the ability to provide quality medical services to those in need.
Immediately after the attack on the hospital, Ukrainians began to raise funds to rebuild Okhmatdyt and raised about UAH 1.6 billion. However, the hospital’s charitable foundation was then caught up in a scandal. The Foundation chose Bud-Technology LLC as the winner of the tender, despite the fact that this offer was one of the most expensive among the 14 bidders. The Ministry of Health decided to cancel the previous tender and hold a new one through the Prozorro system.
In this regard, numerous inspections by the Ministry of Health and law enforcement agencies were ordered, and the director of Okhmatdyt, Volodymyr Zhovnir, was suspended from his duties and temporarily replaced by Oleksandr Urin. A Council for the Restoration of Okhmatdyt was also established to approve a phased plan for the hospital’s reconstruction.