Four cancer-sick children and their families, and more to follow, were urgently evacuated last night to the Ukrainian city of Ternopil - in the west - as Kiev has become "too dangerous".
The most serious cases, 25 children at the Cancer Institute and 20 at the Institute of Neurosurgery, remained in Kiev because they were not transportable.
This was announced by the NGO Soleterre Foundation, which has been working in Ukraine since 2003 guaranteeing assistance to children with cancer and supporting a shelter in Kiev, the Dacha.
Kiev, say from Soleterre, "is no longer safe, the bombings continue and the safety of our patients is at risk. The basement of our shelter, the Dacha, is too precarious, the children are scared and our priority is to place them. safe and continue their lifesaving treatments. For this reason, on the night of February 24th we decided on an emergency evacuation of the first 4 families from the shelter in Ternopil, where there is a hospital able to continue the treatment of patients " .
"Children with oncological diseases - says Natalia Onipko, president of the Zaporouka Foundation, the sister organization of Soleterre that manages the Dacha in the country. - are fighting two wars: one against cancer and against the Russian invasion. Some are exhausted. have already experienced these traumas in 2014 ".
