On Ukraine’s Front Line, a Fight to Save Premature Babies

August 22, 2022

(Associated Press) – Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February, three hospitals in government-controlled areas of the country’s war-torn Donetsk region had facilities to care for premature babies. One was hit by a Russian airstrike and the other had to close as a result of the fighting ? leaving only the maternity hospital in the coal mining town of Pokrovsk still operating. Myroshnychenko, the site’s only remaining neonatologist, now lives at the hospital. Her 3-year-old son divides the week between staying at the facility and with his father, a coal miner, at home. (Read More)