97 Donbas residents were provided with assistance for medical treatment in August. How to file an application?
During August, 2015, Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center provided targeted assistance for urgent medical treatment and purchase of medications to 97 injured and severely ill Donbas civilians.
The emergency assistance was also provided to 9 wounded children from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that got severe injuries due to the military operations. All of them received pharmacological support for urgent operations, treatment and further rehabilitation.
"This was the largest number of applications per month that have ever been received by the Humanitarian Center since its foundation. We were getting applications from Sartana, Marinka, Makiivka and other towns of military escalations in August. Five children are still in the hospitals and getting all the necessary medications. We also rendered assistance to 39 severely ill children, whose relatives called the Humanitarian Center's hotline. We still receive a lot of requests to help children with anticonvulsants and asthma medications that are in short supply in non-government-controlled areas of Donbas", – Iryna Temerko, the Head of "Targeted Assistance" direction at Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center, shared.
The assistance was also provided to 49 adults, who filed their applications to the Humanitarian Center's hotline, requesting pharmacological treatment of serious diseases. This number includes 27 citizens of Donetsk and Makiivka who were provided with heart disease medications.
As a reminder, the Targeted Assistance program of Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center has been operating since August, 2014. During this period the Humanitarian Center helped 22,000 Donbas civilians with urgent treatment, purchase of medications, targeted delivery of food products and reconstruction of houses.
Who can get targeted assistance from Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center?
Children who require:
Urgent life-saving surgeries (only upon availability of medical appointment for the operation with the list of required medications in hard copy):
- injuries due to ATO
- urgent life-saving surgeries
- prosthesis
Urgent life-saving treatment (only upon availability of medical appointment for the operation with the list of required medications in hard copy):
- severely ill children
- children injured due to ATO
- rehabilitation equipment (crutches, walking frame, canes, etc.)
Adults who require:
Urgent life-saving surgeries (only upon availability of medical appointment for the operation with the list of required medications in hard copy):
- injuries due to ATO
- urgent life-saving surgeries
- prosthesis
Urgent life-saving treatment (only upon availability of medical appointment for the operation with the list of required medications in hard copy):
- severely ill
- peaceful residents, injured due to ATO
- rehabilitation equipment for injuries due to ATO (crutches, walking frame, canes, etc.)
Benefit-entitled categories of adults, who can file and application:
- Retired disabled people of the 1st and the 2nd groups (upon availability of proving documents)
- Disabled people of the 1st and the 2nd groups (upon availability of proving documents)
- Families, who are bringing up orphans and children under custody (upon availability of proving documents)
- Multi-child families with 3 and more children under 18 (upon availability of proving documents)
- Single mothers or widows with children under 18 (upon availability of proving documents)
- Families in difficult life circumstances (families, who have more than one severely ill family member, for example, mother with cancer and her child with ICP, or two disabled persons of the 1st group etc.)
The applications for targeted assistance can be left via the Humanitarian Center's hotline (0800 509 001) and email [email protected]. Please note: assistance is provided only upon availability of medical certificate.
