Four children from “Okhmatdet” will undergo a course in the largest children's oncology center in Europe
Kyiv • UNN
The Children's Oncology Center in the Netherlands will receive four children from Kiev's Okhmatdet hospital, which suffered a missile strike in July 2024. Children with cancer will arrive in Utrecht in the coming days.
The Princess Maxima Children's Oncology Center in the Netherlands will receive four children previously treated at the Okhmatdet clinic in Kiev, partially bombed by Russian invaders in July 2024.
Writes UNN citing RTL and Nederlandse Omroep Stichting.
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The Princess Maxima Center in Utrecht, Netherlands, will receive four children from the damaged children's hospital in Kiev.
The four children have cancer and will therefore be transferred to the Princess Maxima Center, which specializes in pediatric oncology. The young patients will arrive in Utrecht in the coming days
Recall
A massive missile attack by Russian forces on Ukrainian cities on July 8 killed 42 people, including four young children, and injured 190.
The Russian Federation launched a missile attack on the children's hospital “Okhmatdet”, which treats children with the most severe diagnoses from all over Ukraine. At the time of the attack there were 627 young patients in the hospital. The shelling at Okhmatdet killed two people and wounded more than 50.
UNN reported that four children from the Okhmatdet National Children's Hospital and their parents were evacuated to Austria and Switzerland to continue treatment for serious illnesses, including a 12-year-old boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
