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Amid ongoing war, a new children’s hospital in Ukraine is a lifeline
A pediatric hospital has just opened in Ukraine that could reinvent the country’s approach to providing healthcare.
With a design informed by the trauma of war and a construction method optimized for a pressing need, Project Horizon is a modular, 15-bed pediatric hospital wing. It is located in Brody, a city of 150,000 people 50 miles from the border with Poland. Brody is far from the war zone in eastern Ukraine, but is nonetheless touched by the conflict, with an influx of internal migrants coming to the relative peace of the west.
Part of Brody Central City Hospital, the prefabricated hospital wing fills a deep need. Hundreds of hospitals and healthcare facilities across Ukraine have been damaged or destroyed during the war with Russia, adding extra pressure on the health infrastructure that remains.
The wing received its first patients in late May. With private rooms, floor-to-ceiling windows, modern diagnostic equipment, and a color palette informed by studies on post-traumatic stress disorder, the facility is a light-filled space that softens the experience of going to the hospital for children and their families.
Sunflower Network, a U.S.-based nonprofit formed after the start of the war in 2022 to provide humanitarian aid to Ukrainians, instigated the project. At its inception, the nonprofit focused on raising money and sending medical supplies to healthcare workers on the front lines. But as the war dragged on and supply chains within the country adapted to the challenges of wartime, the organization identified a need for new infrastructure.
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A pediatric hospital has just opened in Ukraine that could reinvent the country’s approach to providing healthcare.
With a design informed by the trauma of war and a construction method optimized for a pressing need, Project Horizon is a modular, 15-bed pediatric hospital wing. It is located in Brody, a city of 150,000 people 50 miles from the border with Poland. Brody is far from the war zone in eastern Ukraine, but is nonetheless touched by the conflict, with an influx of internal migrants coming to the relative peace of the west.
Part of Brody Central City Hospital, the prefabricated hospital wing fills a deep need. Hundreds of hospitals and healthcare facilities across Ukraine have been damaged or destroyed during the war with Russia, adding extra pressure on the health infrastructure that remains.
The wing received its first patients in late May. With private rooms, floor-to-ceiling windows, modern diagnostic equipment, and a color palette informed by studies on post-traumatic stress disorder, the facility is a light-filled space that softens the experience of going to the hospital for children and their families.
Sunflower Network, a U.S.-based nonprofit formed after the start of the war in 2022 to provide humanitarian aid to Ukrainians, instigated the project. At its inception, the nonprofit focused on raising money and sending medical supplies to healthcare workers on the front lines. But as the war dragged on and supply chains within the country adapted to the challenges of wartime, the organization identified a need for new infrastructure.
#local #ukraine
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