At the end of the next stage of the project "Improving the Protection of Children in Emergencies in Ukraine by Providing Safe Shelters, Food and Non-Food Items, and Psychosocial Support", a set of medical equipment was donated to the Uzhhorod City Multidisciplinary Hospital.

This is an electroencephalographic computer complex with video monitoring mode for the clinical perinatal center. The Center provides highly specialized obstetric, gynecological, and neonatal care for mothers and children from all over the Zakarpattia region. The vast majority of premature babies and infants with various pathologies are born in this separate unit of the Uzhhorod City Multidisciplinary Hospital. Thus, in 2024, among 2,569 newborns, 455 children were born sick or fell ill, of which 45 suffered from hypoxia during childbirth and 79 from respiratory disorders. Among infants, 217 children were born prematurely and showed signs of prematurity. Due to their immaturity, among other pathologies, such newborns usually have neurological problems, and neurological complications are also characteristic of full-term babies who have suffered from hypoxia.

"This equipment is necessary for diagnosing disorders of the central nervous system in full-term infants born in asphyxia. First and foremost, this concerns children who have seizures or are in a medically induced coma, so seizures are not always clinically visible and assessable. Such newborns require round-the-clock monitoring using the equipment received, which will allow the root cause of the seizures to be identified and decisions on further treatment to be made. The new electroencephalographic computer complex will replace the old equipment and enable more effective and rapid monitoring of the condition and provision of assistance to newborn babies. I would like to emphasize that children are born with asphyxia quite often, so there is no doubt that this modern device is in demand and meets current standards for the diagnosis of hypoxic-ischemic brain damage in newborns", said Stepan Bohdan, head of the neonatal intensive care unit at Uzhhorod City Multidisciplinary Clinical Hospital and pediatric anesthesiologist.

The medical facility also emphasized that the availability of equipment for diagnosing neurological pathologies is a mandatory condition stipulated in the agreement with the National Health Service of Ukraine. In addition to the electroencephalograph itself, the equipment donated to the hospital includes a printer, laptop, monitor, additional components, and peripherals.

As a reminder, earlier, as part of a project that the Medical Aid Committee in Zakarpattya is implementing with the support of "terre des hommes Deutschland e.V." and funding from the German Federal Foreign Office, a shipment of medicines was donated to the Kharkiv Regional Clinical Perinatal Center.