By Tatyana Meshcheryakova
It’s time for an update on one of our ongoing, major initiatives – medical deliveries. During April and May of 2024, with the help of Nova Ukraine, our tireless long-term partner Patients of Ukraine distributed medications in the amount of $10,000 (387,360.27 UAH) across various hospitals and medical facilities in Ukraine. The medications were meant for people suffering from orphan diseases, the category of rare diseases that use expensive, harder-to-access medications. Orphan diseases include hypertension, Wilson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and also for babies born prematurely. This initiative allows Nova Ukraine to provide medications directly to patients with such diseases, to those who need them most.
Naturally, preemies and patients with these diseases all need help and proper treatment. Unfortunately, considering the current circumstances under shelling and martial law, Ukraine’s healthcare system just doesn’t have the ability to provide all patients with the necessary drugs. As a result, patients have to buy medications themselves or wait too long for them, which is detrimental to – if not downright dangerous for – their health.
Here’s a personal story of one of these patients, Lidia Petrivna, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2016. She has been living with this disease for more than 20 years but it was confirmed only eight years ago. To slow down the progression, expensive treatment was needed. She did receive it thanks to this initiative.
Lidia Petrivna says:
“My diagnosis changed my life a lot. I haven’t left the house alone for a long time.
It is very difficult to live in Ukraine with such a diagnosis, because the medicine for this disease is very expensive, and the state, unfortunately, cannot provide for everyone.
I have been treated with the same drug for five years, and it is too expensive for me. That’s why I turn to foundations and am very grateful to those who help with the purchase of medicines that are vitally important to me.”
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