Francesco Cardona

Irish colleagues airlifted Ukrainian patient to Ireland.

https://twitter.com/transport_neo/status/1505611005312831494?s=20&t=fP2I3GwnBeaK60jwfwvomA

https://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/sections/press-releases/2022/who-is-working-day-and-night-to-keep-medical-supply-chains-open-and-preserve-ukraines-health-system

Please add any information or resources you have for transporting infants or pregnant women out of Ukraine. We have compiled lists of material for example.

Here is a list of needed items for neonatal transport as recommended by Rosemarie Boland, Australian Neonatal Transport Nurse

https://twitter.com/piatkat/status/1501482359748706305?s=20&t=RiFIoWIiu5ak4M6HUWYnhw

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vA1Ixm-j7LtbU5nrGULW5zZE5avklXLnRpv9ihsDBlk/edit?usp=sharing

Equipment list for neonatal transport.pdf

Irish news have shared images of maternity ward / NICU in the basement of a hospital in Ukraine

Twitter link

A report in Time magazine on the situation in the children's hospital in Kyiv https://time.com/6152374/children-hospital-kyiv-ukraine-russia/

11 hours ago, kalamazoo said:

Many neonatal and pediatric travel nurses in the USA are available to help in any way possible

What is the best way to contact travel nurses best?

UNICEF has also called for action to help children who are currently threatened due to the war in Ukraine https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/conflict-ukraine-pose-immediate-threat-children

One of the first reports was from a NICU in Dniepro, Eastern Ukraine, featured staff caring for babies in a bomb shelter during the first days of the invasion (feb 24 2022). https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/24/world/russia-attacks-ukraine/newborns-at-a-dnipro-childrens-hospital-moved-into-bomb-shelter