ODESA REGIONAL CHILDREN’S CLINICAL HOSPITAL
Neurosurgery Department. RENOVATION COMPLETED IN JULY 2020
This is probably one of the most important departments in Odesa, the Odesa Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital.
When surgeries are performed in this department’s operating room, Svitlana Dykal used to call them, in hospital slang, “morning in a minibus.” Small rooms where doctors were literally on top of each other. And such operations involve up to 12 medical professionals.
Here they operate on children from 1 month to 18 years old.
It was a long and difficult process because there were many nuances related to expanding the premises, electricity, ventilation systems, etc. We even ordered a special ceiling from Germany.
So, on July 5, 2020, in the new and most importantly large operating room, skilled doctors (and people who work inside our heads and fix what they fix are, to me, equivalent to wizards of their craft) neurosurgeons of the ORCCH under the leadership of Ihor Yushchak performed the first surgery.
The renovation cost (excluding equipment) amounted to 290,545 hryvnias and 51 kopiykas.
Before and after photos are attached))
Thank you to everyone who helps us change the world of hospitals.
Everything we do—we do together.
Before renovation:
After renovation:
Odesa Regional Children’s Hospital. New treatment room,
opened in February 2019
Three months ago, back in 2018, this idea was born. During a period when the number of children admitted to the regional children’s hospital was growing exponentially and children who came for procedures: treatments (IVs, injections, inhalations) went to the treatment room of the admission and diagnostic department of the ORCH, where children with various infections are kept in isolation rooms. And that’s when Svitlana Dykal and I decided that we needed a new treatment room with a separate entrance… and off we went)). A week later, the RIVIERA Shopping Center team joined us, where the coolest fair was held at the end of December and almost 50,000 hryvnias were raised. Volodymyr Khuda, Yan Shkuro, and the team—thank you for believing in my crazy idea that we need a new treatment room!)) The renovation was long and difficult: we wanted to do everything right. We insulated the walls at the junction of two buildings, replaced pipes, knocked down walls and tiles, poured a new floor. We waited for everything to dry according to standards so the tiles wouldn’t fall off after a month. We painted the walls with washable medical paint, installed doors. Today the new treatment room is receiving its first little patients—there are no more dull walls here. Here all the scary things, like IV stands and syringes, are hidden in a modern storage system. There’s a TV with cartoons, lighting so nurses can see better when inserting an IV into a small vein for little patients. We purchased a refrigerator, a bactericidal air disinfection unit, a heater, a suction device, and an inhaler. And the couches were custom-made—they are high and convenient for medical staff to work, and mothers sitting nearby will be able to comfortably support their little ones. Thank you to all our donors who support us in this direction as well. Renovating a children’s hospital is important because all children will be able to benefit from the renovation. Both those who come from the region and our own as well. Thank you to those who don’t shout “the state should do everything.” We spent a total of 150,000 hryvnias on renovation and equipment. Thank you to Channel 7 for always coming to us and telling the city about what’s been done. Friends, you are our voice, thank you! Thank you to Oleksandr Fysun for putting up with us this past month with things like: “come urgently and hang the TV, you hung the picture in the wrong place” and “no, this isn’t how we wanted it…”—you helped us a lot! Before and after photos)) Everything we do, we do together!!! And we’re not stopping—we’ve already started a small renovation in the traumatology department. Children lie there for months and it’s also very sad there… but it’s sad for now, we’ll fix all that with you soon))
Odesa Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital
Admission and Diagnostic Department. Renovation completed in October 2018
“How about we paint the wall a bit?” (conversation took place in mid-September 2018) Two weeks ago, the admission and diagnostic department of the regional children’s hospital closed for its annual “cleaning.” Such departments close very rarely because they are the “entrance gates” of the hospital. And thousands of children receive treatment here every year. It all started with the idea of painting the walls. It ended with replacing beds for children (we replaced more last year), replacing all lighting, linoleum (thank you to Olena Orlova and her friends), replacing chairs, completely painting the entire department, completely replacing the kitchen, replacing all heaters, installing part of the suspended ceiling structures, replacing all bedspreads, sheets, and blankets. We hung blinds in 4 isolation rooms, replaced furniture in the nurses’ station, installed new bedpan washers, bought an ironing board (previously sheets were ironed on a table), and of course added decor (Masha and Kostiantyn Klymchytskyi, thank you for the paintings)). I just left the department, which will “open its doors to little patients” tomorrow, although in essence it never closed and doctors held appointments every day right in the middle of the renovation. We just finished putting up the last stickers together with five-year-old Masha, who came for treatment. A couple of minutes later, all the children who were waiting for doctors joined us. And it was all so fun that parents started recording videos and left the department smiling. Thank you to everyone who participated. To those who transfer money and give us the right to manage it. Thank you!!
Everything we do—we do together.
Behind this renovation are thousands of people—all of you who have been with us all this time.
Odesa Monsters Corporation
October 2018
