The new head of “Okhmatdyt” made a confession: “This caused more damage to the hospital than a rocket attack”

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He says that reputation has been worked on for 130 years.

The Russians in Kyiv destroyed the entire building of the medical facility in the National Children's Specialized Hospital “Okhmatdyt” with a rocket strike. There were dead and wounded.

Currently, doctor Oleksandr Urin is temporarily acting as the general director. He told the journalist of “Telegraf” about Viktor Lyashko and the suspension of Volodymyr Zhovnir in an interview – “The scandal surrounding the tender caused more damage than a missile strike”.

He says that the Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko had in mind the distortion of information from the hospital's management when he suspended the general director Volodymyr Zhovnir, he cannot comment. And the situation that happened in the hospital is currently unclear to him.

We were acquainted with my supervisor Volodymyr Apollinariovych (Jovnir. — Ed.) before he came here. He is an anesthesiologist who ran the heart center, and we had a very professional collaboration. In addition, we had scientific contacts with him, conferences were held where we constantly encountered each other. Then he came to us, and our other cooperation began. The person was constantly at work during the full-scale invasion, he said.

In his opinion, as a doctor, this conflict caused more damage to the children's hospital than the rocket attack. This severely affected our image, which was built by our teachers and their medical teachers for 130 years.

The attack on “Okhmatdyt” – what is known

On July 8, 2024, as a result of a missile attack by the Russian Federation in “Okhmatdit” — the largest multidisciplinary children's hospital in Ukraine — was damaged in Kyiv.

As a result of the attack, the buildings of the medical facility were damaged, some buildings of the medical facility were destroyed, windows and panes were broken. The building of the toxicology department, where seriously ill children were undergoing dialysis, was destroyed.

Five oncology departments, ten surgical departments, two somatic departments, an intensive care department, two intensive care units, operating units, radiation and radiotherapy departments, and three more were damaged. housings Two electrical substations were also destroyed, from which the entire infrastructure of the hospital was powered.

Two people, including a pediatrician, died as a result of the shelling. Dozens of people were injured, including children.