On July 16, important event took place at the largest children’s hospital of Ukraine, Okhmatdyt – the signing of a memorandum on the restoration of the hospital department after the missile attack on July 8.
FC Dynamo Kyiv and the Surkis Brothers Foundation will fully rebuild and restore the Center for orphan diseases and gene therapy for children at Okhmatdyt Hospital in Kyiv, which was damaged during the recent russian attack. All expenses will be covered by the club and the foundation.
Dynamo were represented at the event by club vice-president Dmytro Brif and commercial director Maksym Radutskyi. General director Volodymyr Zhovnir signed the memorandum on behalf of Okhmatdyt Hospital. Dynamo representatives gave him a club jersey with the inscription “Okhmatdyt” and the number 130, because this year the hospital turns 130 years old, and in return they received a touching children’s drawing, which one of the girls drew the day after the missile attack, while in a shelter during the alert. “This is much more important and symbolic than all the thanks and certificates”, – said Dmytro Brif.
The signing of the memorandum between FC Dynamo Kyiv, the Surkis Brothers Foundation and the Okhmatdyt Hospital provides, first of all, the direct restoration of the Center after the damage caused, as well as the presentation of specific plans for the reconstruction and support of the hospital by FC Dynamo Kyiv and the Surkis Brothers Foundation.
It should be noted that the Center for orphan diseases and gene therapy is a new department that was opened very recently – three months ago. Orphan diseases are rare diseases that occur once in many millions of cases. One example is SMA – spinal muscular atrophy, when impulses between the brain and muscles of a child are disrupted. About 300 cases of this disease have been recorded in Ukraine.
