Vancouver Island team fundraising to build a breastmilk bank for babies in Ukraine

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A humanitarian group from the West Shore of Vancouver Island is embarking on a new mission to create a regional breastmilk bank in the west of Ukraine.

The team has made three trips to the country since the war with Russia began. The result of those trips brought hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical and food aid to the people of Ukraine, but during the team's last trip to the war-torn country, they were taken aback by what they experienced.

Before the war, the hospital used to see on average four premature births per month. Since the war began, it now sees an average of 40 per month.“It’s really a problem,” said Oleg Atamnoik, a surgeon at the Ivano-Frankivsk children’s hospital. NEC, or necrotising enterocolitis, is a bowel disease that can lead to a bacterial infection, potentially killing the premature baby.

That bank would be located at the children’s hospital in Ivano-Frankivsk and would serve the entire region of around two million people.of $50,000. That would build the bank as well as purchase a human milk analyzer, a pasteurizer, medical freezer and a pharmaceutical refrigerator.Dirt bike crash prompts investigation by B.C.

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