
These children's daily battle to survive is playing out at Ohmatdyt, Ukraine's main children's hospital, which draws patients from across the country. Amid Russia's attack, there was no reprieve for people with diabetes - estimated at 2.3 million before the war - not least the littlest ones. "During the first month, we practically lived in the bomb shelter," recalling a missile that fell nearby, shattering glass and depositing shrapnel on the hospital grounds. 24 and didn't leave until April 22," she told Direct Relief recently when it became clear the war had entered a protracted phase. "When the war began, all of the logistics were broken, the pharmacies were closed, many pharmacy staff fled with their children, and we only took emergency cases," which also included parents with diabetes in desperate need of insulin and children with shrapnel wounds, said Dr. She will spend the rest of her life dependent on insulin injections - regardless of the war’s outcome. Her tiny body had lost its ability to produce the insulin that cells need to turn glucose into energy. The girl suddenly became very ill with the acute onset of Type 1 diabetes.
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One-year-old Polina from the Ukrainian capital had been visiting with family in Mariupol, the industrial port city that was besieged, destroyed, and occupied by Russian forces after President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion. Nataliya Pogadayeva, the head of the pediatric endocrinology department at the Ohmatdyt National Specialized Children's Hospital in Kyiv, relives February 24 as both the day Russia invaded Ukraine, and the start of another war for the life of a child brought that morning by ambulance from Mariupol. In a Kyiv Hospital Bomb Shelter, a Child Begins Her Lifelong Battle Against Diabetes By Sophia Kishkovsky Dr. If Direct Relief requests a change to or removal of republished Direct Relief content from a site or on-air, the republisher must comply.įor any additional questions about republishing Direct Relief content, please email the team here.Direct Relief's work is prohibited from populating web pages designed to improve rankings on search engines or solely to gain revenue from network-based advertisements.Īdvance permission is required to translate Direct Relief's stories into a language different from the original language of publication.



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