What We Do

Medical Programme

CCPI has helped reduce a waiting list for cardiac surgeries in Belarus which consisted of 7,000 children down to under 2,500 children in just 5 years. Treatment for cardiac conditions that would be practically routine in the United States or Europe is not so in Belarus. Without CCPI's intervention, many of these children would die within three to five years. This year has also seen the roll-out of a new Cardiac Programme in Ukraine. CCPI will help reduce down a waiting list of 6,000 children and operate on them across four of the major cities in Ukraine, Kharkiv, Kiev, Odessa and Donetsk.

Dr. William Novick and his teams began the Cardiac Programme in 2003. Dr Novick has been instrumental in making the Cardiac Programme. an international success and reduced down the list of Chernobyl Heart victims.

On New Year's Eve in 1994 Adi Roche accompanied four very sick children on a memorable flight, from Belarus to Iceland and again on to Ireland. Since this first life saving excursion, over 300 children have benefited from Life Saving Operations.

Also in an effort to improve the nursing care on offer in children’s orphanages, in particular in Vesnovo Children's Mental Asylum in Belarus, the Chernobyl Children’s Project International manages a very effective Nursing Programme which sponsors the salaries of a number of health professionals to work in these institutions. The overall Medical Programme includes at total of 17 health professionals ie nursing staff, physiotherapists, teachers, doctors and psychologist who provide a level of care which in all cases dramatically improves the quality of life for the children.

The work undertaken through these programmes includes the involvement of a number of experienced and committed Irish health professionals who travel on a monthly basis to Belarus to manage and oversee the medical programme and offer various levels of support and training to their Belarussian counterparts.

The Project also runs a Hospice Programme which employs nurses who make medical visits to terminally ill children in their homes in Belarus.

CCPI also supports the medical care in institutions and orphanages by providing mini-vans for easy access for children to attend physiotherapy sessions and travel to receive specialist care.

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