ABOUT NCSH “OHMATDYT”
NCSH “Ohmatdyt” is the largest children's hospital of Ukraine. The history of the institution began in 1894, when the outstanding philanthropist Nikola Tereshchenko donated funds for the construction of the hospital.
HOSPITAL DURING THE WAR
Since the beginning of the war, our hospital has become a hospital for both children and adults. Work in the conditions of martial law does not stop for a minute. Even when active hostilities were taking place on the territory of Kyiv and there was shelling around the hospital. During this time, a lot of patients with injuries that have been received as a result of the war were treated in Ohmatdyt: these includes gunshots, results of mine-explosions, shrapnel injuries, and contusions. The youngest injured patient was 1 month old, the oldest was 83 years old.
Bomb shelters were organized on the territory of Ohmatdyt, where doctors continued to provide medical assistance to children. Psychologists also have worked with patients. In addition to this, to console the children, they were visited by clowns.
In the first days of the war, an emergency medical care department was organized in the new building of the hospital. That's where the wounded went. Our specialists also provided medical assistance to patients with other pathologies, diseases and injuries.
The shortest time from the arrival of the injured person to the hospital, conducting diagnostics, tests, diagnosis, and taking the patient to the operating room was 13 minutes. This is a record result.
Consultative and diagnostic polyclinic of NCSH “Ohmatdyt”conducts field consultations in the de-occupied territories. There, doctors examine children who were under Russian occupation.
Ohmatdyt specialists continue to work selflessly to preserve the lives and health of Ukrainians. Now the hospital has resumed admission of scheduled patients.
NOW OHMATDYT ACHIEVES A RESULT EVERY YEAR
10000+
Operations per year
20000+
Patients per year
80+
Departments of hospital
28000
Appeals to the trauma center
1800
Liters of donor blood
MISSION OF NCSH “OHMATDYT” - HELP TO MAINTAIN AND RECOVER THE HEALTH
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TRANSPLANTOLOGY
Ohmatdyt is the only hospital in Ukraine that performs all types of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. In 2020, bone marrow transplants from a non-family donor began to be performed here. In 2021, 53 BMT were performed at the hospital. For 14 patients, unrelated donors were found abroad. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the hospital team has not stopped its work. In this difficult time, doctors began to perform bone marrow transplants for adult patients as well.
“the only hospital in Ukraine that performs non-family bone marrow transplants for children.”]
Kidney transplants are also carried out in Ohmatdyt. Liver transplantation was launched here during the war.
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PSYHOLOGICAL HELP
A long stay in the hospital is difficult for everyone: both children and adults. Therefore, every day specialists of our Center for medical and psychological, social and rehabilitation care consult more than 70 patients and their parents every day.
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AIR MEDICAL EVACUATION
With active cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, aeromedical evacuation was organized in Ohmatdyt: serious patients are taken to the hospital by helicopters. Organs for transplantation are also brought by plane.
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INNOVATION FOR LIFE
Ohmatdyt is actively developing innovative areas: the hospital has created its own cryobank. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is also used for children whose lungs and heart have failed at the same time.
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PRENATAL DIAGNOSTICS
A perinatal council operates in Ohmatdyt. It analyzes complex cases of congenital defects of the fetus in pregnant women from all over the country. Even at the stage of pregnancy, our team develops a step-by-step treatment plan.
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NEONATOLOGY
4 departments of the hospital deal with intensive care, discharge and early rehabilitation of children born from the 24th week of pregnancy weighing more than 500 grams. Such help is provided to 1,500 babies annually. The smallest weight of our patient was 475 grams!
