This component envisages attracting partners’ resources to support hospitals in:

• finding resources to provide hospitals with necessary medicine and equipment;
• raising the level of medical professionals’ skills.

Professional exchange has already started in the framework of the program. Six experts in children’s oncology and cardio surgery took part in the Masters of Pediatrics annual conference (Miami, US).

Due to the sponsorship of the Zaporizhstal Metallurgic Complex, the Foundation provided financial aid of two million UAH (approximately $ 400, 000) for completing the reconstruction of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Children’s Hospital. After the reconstruction children from Zaporizhzhia oblast and neighboring oblasts has got a chance to receive treatment in a modern hospital set with energy-saving windows and ergonomic equipment meeting the highest current standards.

On November 20, 2005, the UN’s Universal Children’s Day, the Ukraine 3000 Foundation and its partners conducted two charitable actions, fundraising over 933,000 UAH (roughly $185,000) from philanthropists. The first of the two actions, Oleksandr Ponomariov’s Fall Charitable Ball, brought around 530,000 UAH (approximately $ 106,000) in charitable contributions. In accordance with partnership agreements, these funds were allotted for neonatology wards. First to receive new equipment (incubation apparatuses, resuscitation tables, monitors, and pulsoximeters) were children’s hospitals in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, and Lutsk.

During the other action of November 20, 2005, conducted together with McDonalds Ukraine, 404,000 UAH (roughly $80,000) was raised and transmitted to the Oncology Institute at the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv) for remodeling and renewing family rooms. The rooms were opened on May 17, 2006.

In 2006 the Ukraine 3000 Fund and McDonalds Ukraine continued their cooperation with the Healthy Heart of the Child action. The Healthy Heart of the Child charitable action was held from November 8 to 20, 2006. In this period, every McDonald’s customer in 16 Ukraine’s cities could buy symbolic memorabilia: special paper hands, bracelets, or charms.

The total of UAH 500,000 (roughly $100,000) had been raised in course of the action. The organizers spent them on purchasing cardio equipment, which was handed over to representatives of 18 Ukrainian hospitals on January 26, 2007. Each hospital received cardio equipment sets including 12-channel synchronous ECG recorder (with 100 paper rolls and 12 bottles of ECG gel), and 24-hour blood pressure monitor. At present, the equipment is already in use at functional diagnosing wards, ICUs and reanimation wards, as well as admission rooms.

Due to the fruitful cooperation between the Ukraine 3000 Fund and Procter & Gamble Company, a series of actions had been held, due to which children’s hospitals received modern equipment. In 2005 the Haelthy Children of Ukraine program started, bringing modern reanimobiles to four Ukraine’s oblast children hospitals. In 2006 the program continued with purchasing equipment for neonatal units at Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Children’s Hospital and Khmelnytsky City Clinical Hospital. The hospitals received reanimation tables, infant incubators, bed monitors, pulsoximeters, and other apparatuses vital for saving newborns’ lives.