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svitlana chernyak and her husband

although #medics4ukraine are principally involved in delivering medicine and equipment for the frontline in russia's disgusting, immoral and illegal war against ukraine, they also try to help with requests for specific medication across the whole country

we start the day at a hospital meeting patients who are directly benefitting from the supplies of hydrocortisone that WEM have supplied

outside of wartime, patients would source this drug from abroad

during wartime they are unable to

during and post surgery (lifelong) these patients need this medicine to stay alive

svitlana (58) is recovering from a tumor and pituarity cancer

the hospital is VERY grateful to WEM and everyone donating to #medics4ukraine for the life saving medicine

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Valentyna Drozd

one day before going home.

Valentina (55) will also need life long supply of hydrocortisone

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Yulia Rozputya

Yulia (44) has hydrocephalus and intercranial pressure

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next we visited the paediatric hospital that the russians deliberately targeted at the beginning of the war

how fucked is that, that they would deliberately bomb a children's hospital?

here, we met extreme dude pavlov plavskyi: the head of the paediatric neurosurgery division

i asked asked pavlov to smile less for this portrait and he explained that his smile is very important for the children: they trust him and he needs to convey an optimistic demeanour at all times.

pavlov was clearly tired and he has been working flat out since the war started but he still manges a sincere smile in the face of so much difficulty.

he was such a lovely, brilliant guy and it was an honour to be shown around by him, hear what challenges they are facing and see him with his patients

after the russians bombed the hospital, the doctors stayed and continued to treat patients in the basement of the building

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ilona is 7

she came to hospital with posterior fossa tumour

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platon is 2 and a half

he's being treated for hydrocephalus

some of the children in this hospital have been treated in other hospitals first and have needed to be transferred here for further surgery or sometimes to fix surgeries they've had in less well resourced (and staffed) hospitals

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bogdan is 4yrs old

he has epilepsy and has had a temporal lobectomy

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bogdan and his mum

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Nina is 7 and she has spina bifida

i photographed her as she was sleeping

it's difficult to photograph people in hospital and especially kids

i was trying to do this as sensitively as possible

this is a different approach for me, in some regards

i feel like i'm on a steep learning curve with this on the job training

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pavlov and one of his patients

rudely i can't find this boy's name in our notes

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rostyslav is 6

he has had a posterior fossa tumour removed

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nikita and her mum

nikita is 18months old

she has congenital malformations of the brain and face and hydrocephalus

her and her mum are smiling because tomorrow they're going home

WEM and #medics4ukraine have a list of equipment and medicine that this children's hospital needs and they will try to source and fund its delivery

you can help people directly too by donating HERE

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Perous Secret Diary - Keep Out: June 10, 2022