20 more people are provided with assistance for urgent treatment. How to file an application to the Humanitarian Center?

Over the last two weeks Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center helped 21 Donbas residents with medical treatment, 15 of them were children from 1 to 16 years old. All of them require urgent treatment or surgery.

Children received medicines for treatment of congenital and acquired diseases of cardiovascular, nervous, respiratory systems, etc.

11-year-old Oleksiy from Shakhtarsk has cerebral cyst. The boy needs a serious surgery. Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center took over the provision of all required consumables and medications.

The Center also helped with treatment of one-year-old Andriy from Luhansk region. The child has severe closed craniocerebral injury, contusion of brain and left frontal temporal lobe, broken bones and skull base.

To get help from Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center, please call the toll-free hotline 0800 509 001 or send an application to the email: [email protected]. 

Who can get targeted medical assistance from Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center?

• residents of non-government-controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions
• internally displaced persons who have a corresponding certificate

Targeted medical assistance is provided to all children from 0 to 18 years old and adult civilians, who belong to the following benefit-entitled categories:

• retired disabled people of the 1st and the 2nd groups
• disabled people of the 1st and the 2nd groups
• families that bring up orphans and children under custody
• multi-child families with 3 and more children under 18
• single mothers and widows with children under 18 years old
• 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.)

What diseases does the Humanitarian Center help to treat?

Children

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 hostilities
• 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
• civilians injured due to hostilities
• rehabilitation equipment for injuries due to ATO (crutches, walking frame, canes, etc.)

Adults

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 hostilities
• urgent life-saving surgeries

Urgent life-saving treatment (only upon availability of medical appointment for the operation with the list of required medications in hard copy):

• severely ill
• civilians injured due to hostilities
• rehabilitation equipment for injuries due to hostilities (crutches, walking frame, canes, etc.)

To be provided with assistance it is necessary to show:

• doctor's referral for surgery with the list of medications
• document proving the benefit-entitled category (for adult civilians)