Posted on 06/09/2023 5:34:23 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
ARTICLE
A heart delivered by the sky: Ukraine’s first wartime aeromedical evacuation
Ukrainska Pravda
Friday, 9 June 2023, 21:50
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/9/7406200/
In Ukraine, a helicopter took off into the sky to save a 15-year-old boy from Mykolaiv Oblast. The helicopter was delivering a donor heart from Vinnytsia to the Kyiv Heart Institute.
This was the first aeromedical evacuation of an organ since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, the Ministry of Health reports.
The patient’s name is Maksym. He is from the town of Vradiivka, in Mykolaiv Oblast.
“In February, Maksym contracted Covid, and he started having heart problems. Doctors diagnosed dilated cardiomyopathy (myocardial disease and problems with the ventricles). The disease is incurable. The only option is a transplant,” the ministry emphasised.
The teenager spent a month in intensive care. His life was saved by the family of a deceased 40-year-old woman, who consented to her organs being removed. She had been diagnosed with brain death due to a ruptured aneurysm.
“This family’s decision made it possible to save the lives of four people. Maksym is one of them,” the Ministry of Health writes.
Thanks to modern technology, doctors were able to determine the teenager’s compatibility with the donor. However, a heart can “live” for only a few hours once removed, and it still had to be transported, prepared for surgery and transplanted into the patient.
Because Ukraine is at war, doctors are only carrying out field transplants, and Maksym’s condition did not allow him to be moved, so the doctors decided on an aeromedical evacuation.
A specialized helicopter took off, and within an hour, the donor organ had been transported from Vinnytsia to the Kyiv Heart Institute.
While Maksym was undergoing his heart transplant, three more patients in two hospitals were receiving other organs:
• a kidney went to a 16-year-old from Poltava Oblast;
• the liver went to a 46-year-old woman from the city of Kyiv;
• the second kidney went to a 22-year-old man.
“All the organ transplants were successful. The patients are currently in a stable condition,” the Ministry of Health reported.
BACKGROUND: In Lviv, two organs, a pancreas and a kidney, were successfully transplanted at once for the first time in Ukraine.
I noticed that Mom did not want to post Denys’ daily report from yesterday. Somebody from the Propaganda Ministry must have talked to Denys to “get his mind right” after yesterday’s report. He’s back to posting reports optimistic enough for Mom to post here again.
Thank you for caring.
I didn’t advertise that I was sick.
Just shared with some close Freepers knew.
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You are on the wrong side of history.
Your defense for Biden and Pelosi is disgusting.
As your boy marcus has said, there goes Putins landbridge.
You Zeepers need to get your facts straight.
ARTICLE
Belgium sends €3.5 million worth of humanitarian aid to Ukraine following Kakhovka power plant explosion
Friday, 9 June 2023, 23:18
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/9/7406211/
SOURCE: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium
Belgium’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday that urgent humanitarian aid would be provided to Ukraine to help deal with the aftermath of Russia’s blowing up of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (
Belgium will assist Ukraine through the government mechanism B-FAST, which is used to support foreign countries in crisis.
To help people affected by the floods, B-FAST is providing emergency aid in the form of shelter equipment (tents, mattresses, sleeping bags, jerry cans, hygiene kits). B-FAST transports all these relief items under European coordination. The value of the donation is €350,000.
In cooperation with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Belgium will provide medical equipment worth €1.6 million – medicines, medical products, drinking water storage tanks – and dehydrated meals for evacuees.
Based on an official request received via the European coordination mechanism, B-FAST has been tasked with purchasing generators worth €1.5 million and sending them to the areas affected by the floods.
Finally, of the previously announced humanitarian aid package for Ukraine this year (€24 million), €7 million will go to the UN Humanitarian Fund for Ukraine.
BACKGROUND:
• NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has called on countries in the Alliance to provide urgent humanitarian aid to Ukraine due to the environmental disaster caused by the explosion of the Kakhovka HPP.
• The EU has activated the Civil Protection Mechanism to provide assistance to Ukraine. The first contributions have already been made by Germany, Austria, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, as well as Czechia.
ARTICLE
Belgium sends €3.5 million worth of humanitarian aid to Ukraine following Kakhovka power plant explosion
Friday, 9 June 2023, 23:18
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/9/7406211/
SOURCE: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium
Belgium’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday that urgent humanitarian aid would be provided to Ukraine to help deal with the aftermath of Russia’s blowing up of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant
Belgium will assist Ukraine through the government mechanism B-FAST, which is used to support foreign countries in crisis.
To help people affected by the floods, B-FAST is providing emergency aid in the form of shelter equipment (tents, mattresses, sleeping bags, jerry cans, hygiene kits).
B-FAST transports all these relief items under European coordination. The value of the donation is €350,000.
In cooperation with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Belgium will provide medical equipment worth €1.6 million – medicines, medical products, drinking water storage tanks – and dehydrated meals for evacuees.
Based on an official request received via the European coordination mechanism, B-FAST has been tasked with purchasing generators worth €1.5 million and sending them to the areas affected by the floods.
Finally, of the previously announced humanitarian aid package for Ukraine this year (€24 million), €7 million will go to the UN Humanitarian Fund for Ukraine.
BACKGROUND:
• NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has called on countries in the Alliance to provide urgent humanitarian aid to Ukraine due to the environmental disaster caused by the explosion of the Kakhovka HPP.
• The EU has activated the Civil Protection Mechanism to provide assistance to Ukraine. The first contributions have already been made by Germany, Austria, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, as well as Czechia.
“Danger! Take cover!”
No one means to hurt you. Sharing just the facts.
Take care.
Reports from telegram indicate Ukes have run into a brick wall in Zaporozhye, but have committed only a minor part of their armor.
Doug MacGregor is an older gentleman that likes the publicity of being labeled a military “expert.” However, he is usually wrong in his public prognostications:
Speaking to Fox News three days after the Ukraine invasion began, Macgregor suggested that the conflict was already nearing an end.
“I see no reason why we should fight with Russians over something they have been talking about [invasion] for years.”
“The first five days Russian forces I think frankly were too gentle,” he said. “They’ve now corrected that. So, I would say another 10 days this should be completely over.”
You comments are so sill!
Assumptions are actually just presumptuous guesses.
A valuable suggestion would be to try avoiding making assumptions that generally lead to misunderstandings and slander.
Also, remember:
“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” -Socrates
H.P. Lovecraft
My 2 cents.
1. Its the first few days of the operation, and this is not going to be a repeat of Kharkiv and Kherson. Both sides are going to take higher losses compared to the first half of the year.
2. Ukraine is operating under information blackout, allowing Russia to say whatever it wants. What is said on social media or in the press about the fighting does not change what is actually happening. This presents a distorted view of what is happening.
3. Its going to be a few more days to see how this is going. Meanwhile everyone will talk about the same stories until something new happens.
4. Neither side has yet committed to attacking or defending, the direction of the offensive and response can still can change.
5. As long as Ukraine meets expectations and hurts Russian control over Eastern Ukraine, politically and militarily its a win for them. A Ukrainian win is a Russian loss. Putin can not afford more losses.
“There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.” -H.P. Lovecraft
I’m not a fan of weird science and horror fiction.
I appreciate his truth when applied as “really nothing to do for serious men/women to do in cases of [substitute “Putin trolls”] will say anything.”
I would add Putin troll minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set! LOL
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