June 10, 2009, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko made a one-day working trip to Dnipropetrovsk oblast.
The main event of the trip was a visit to Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital, which received modern neonatology equipment within the framework of the ciooperation between Ukraine 3000 Foundation and Procter & Gamble Ukraine.
The total cost of the equipment donated to Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital is around UAH 475,000. A certificate to this power was delivered to head physician Dr. Oleksandr Khytryk by Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko and Procter & Gamble Ukraine Director for Public Relations Vitaly Prokopenko.
“Ukrainian doctors can boast high professional skills, great enthusiasm, and great devotedness to their profession. But sometimes this is not enough to give a weak child a chance to survive,” Mrs. Yushchenko said. “To increase their chances, the professionals need modern equipment. I am very grateful to Procter & Gamble Ukraine, which doesn’t cease its charitable activities in these hard times, setting an example of corporative social responsibility.”
“This is a great honor for us to work together with our partners and associates from Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation, since helping children is an important part of Procter & Gamble’s charities,” Mr. Prokopenko said. “We are especially happy to give this present to children in Dnipropetrovsk oblast. Our company continues to invest into this region, and, being a socially responsible investor, we not only inject money into developing production, but also take an active interest in the community’s problems.”
This action continues the Healthy Children of Ukraine project, implemented by Procter & Gamble Ukraine and Ukraine 3000 Foundation for the last four years. Its first stage was donating four reanimobiles in October 2005 to Kriovohrad, Zakarpattia, and Luhansk oblast children’s hospitals and Cherkasy Territory Center for Emergency and Disaster Medicine. In 2006 the philanthropists donated equipment to neonatology units of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital and Khmelnytsky City Children’s Clinical Hospital. Last year, four children’s patient care institutions in Volyn, Chernihiv, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts and the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea received equipment for children with impaired hearing. The total cost of the equipment donated in course of the joint project is around UAH 3.5 million. In total, in the last decade Procter & Gamble Ukraine has donated medical equipment to four children’s patient care institutions throughout the country to the total of $1,300,000.
Accompanied by head physician Dr. Oleksandr Khytryk, Mrs. Yushchenko and Mr. Prokopenko visited the infant anesthesiology and intensive therapy unit. The new artificial lungs ventilation machines have already been set up at the unit and are ready for their first patients. The distinguished guests also visited the construction site of the hospital’s new wing.
Among other participants of the event were Head of the Dniprodzerzhynsk Oblast State Administration Viktor Bondar, Head of the Chief Health Care Administration of the Oblast State Administration Valentyna Hinzburh, and Head of the Board of Directors of Ukraine 3000 Foundation Oleksandr Maksymchuk.
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