Dear West, can you send your doctors to Ukrainians who need them?
In a country where politicians of all stripes have so much gas, why do ambulances have so little? Why so many hospitals without doctors?
Police are now looking into how a cup of hot water killed the kid. In the unlikely event that someone goes to jail for this, will Western dignitaries flock to them too?
If you guys don’t want "selective justice," what do you want? Suicidal justice? Like, the Bloods turning themselves in or shooting themselves, and the Crips following suit?
Or maybe all you want for Ukraine is 100% stability and 0% accountability? Maybe you’re fine with the crooks as long as they don’t have the nukes?
Fellas, don’t shoot each other In this life you have nothing to divvy up At the round table forget your grievances ‘Cause burying friends is hard for everyone
If this is your song for Ukraine, why complain about corruption?
PM Yulia Tymoshenko: I understood how, for many years, the country has been ripped off, how those miserly pennies have been taken away from the budget — one that’s barely making both ends meet for the healthcare system — and how, at egregiously overblown prices, medical equipment and medications have been procured.
At a children’s hospital in Yevpatoria, he traded a cardiac monitor for a thank-you painting of a local landscape.
Presidential candidate Yanukovych: What do you call this device? Hospital personnel: Cardiac tomograph. Yanukovych: Cardiac...? Personnel: Monitor! Yanukovych: Cardiac monitor. Do you need a cardiac monitor? Personnel: Of course! Badly! Hahaha! Personnel: Here you go, so you can look at it periodically and recall being in a good workplace, where good people live, in a good city.
I love that Sainsbury’s: Where good food costs less plastic bag!
How about this one: Yanukovych’s: Where his life tastes good and your life costs less?
Tymoshenko has a roadshow of her own, but she can't get her numbers straight.
PM Tymoshenko, Vinnytsya, Nov. 10: Yesterday, when we looked at the data for every oblast, we saw that in Ukraine, on the whole, we have at least a fourfold drop in illness incidence compared to the peak dates of November 2-4.
Tymoshenko, Kyiv, Nov. 11: From November 8 to November 10, we see the figures rise...uh...almost threefold...well, more than two-and-a-half fold. This suggests that the epidemic today is not relaxing its grip.
The only way for the epidemic to relax its grip is for you guys to embrace our healthcare.
Yanukovych brings 30,000 flu masks to Vinnytsya, with a promise of supplying the entire Ukraine with 20,000,000 more. (From Donbas? Wrong. From China!)
For him, touching base with swing voters in central and western Ukraine means greater chances of winning.
Tymoshenko brings equipment to a Lviv hospital.For her, losing western Ukraine means losing.
Kid [obviously recalling a nightmare]: ...a dog will come to me! PM Tymoshenko: Really?
That’s right! Our healthcare is a nightmare.
Meanwhile, people are peddling handmade flu masks on the streets of Kyiv.
Some even recall the unfortunate words Tymoshenko spoke during her October 24 rally.
PM Yulia Tymoshenko: And I know that when every one of you goes home, you will carry a piece of this good, wonderful infection of fighting for freedom to every village, town and city. Can you do that?
So far, we’ve had more freedom of infection than infection of freedom.
As of Friday afternoon local time November 6, we have seven confirmed H1N1 cases in Kyiv, including one fatality. Six infected people are fighting for their lives, including a 2-month-old baby and a 23-year-old pregnant woman.
At least 61 people are in critical condition. H1N1 has been officially confirmed in seven cases. Schools and kindergartens in nine oblasts have been closed: Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Zakarpattya, Chernivtsi, Rivne, Volyn, Khmelnytsk and Vinnytsya.
“Ukraine has entered a flu epidemic, of the so-called California (swine) type. As of October 29, we have 951 people hospitalized. Unfortunately, we have to note 30 fatalities,” Minister of Healthсare Vasyl Knyazevych said at a briefing Friday.
More recent reports bring the death toll to 37.
UPDATES Tymoshenko, Yanukovych and Yushchenko have canceled their campaign rallies. Interoblast movement will be restricted. Mobile military hospitals are on standby.
This Channel 1+1 report looks into an HMO in Irpin, Kyiv oblast, flooded with sick people who fear for their lives.
Every doctor gets 50 patients per day. The situation is deteriorating. An epidemic is going on but nobody will admit it officially.
The number of confirmed H1N1 cases has climbed to 11. According to online rumors, Kyiv disease control authorities will send helicopters spraying anti-H1N1 chemicals overnight.
As of Sunday morning local time, 48 people have died, 150,000 are suffering from respiratory diseases and 14 swine flu cases have been officially confirmed.
As of 13:01 local time, 53 people have died, 184,919 are suffering from respiratory diseases, including 82,691 children. Some 7,383 people have been hospitalized, of whom 123 are in ICU.
As of 5:00 pm local time November 1, 60 people have died and 191,431 are suffering from respiratory diseases.
As of Monday afternoon local time, 67 people have died. All deaths are alike, with 22 confirmed H1N1 cases as testing and autopsies continue, Deputy Minister of Health Vasyl Lazorshynets said.
As of 5:00 pm local time November 2, 70 people have died.
As of Tuesday afternoon local time, 71 people have died and some 255,516 are suffering from respiratory diseases.Contrary to earlier statements, the government now says there's no swine flu epidemic in Ukraine but a seasonal flu epidemic only.
As of 1:00 pm Wednesday local time, the first H1N1 fatality in Kyiv has been officially confirmed.
As of Thursday afternoon local time, the official death toll has reached 92, including 6 children, 4 pregnant women and 4 doctors.
As of Friday afternoon local time November 6, we have seven confirmed H1N1 cases in Kyiv, including one fatality. Six infected people are fighting for their lives, including a 2-month-old baby and a 23-year-old pregnant woman.
As of November 6, 135 people have died.
As of November 8, 144 people have died.
As of November 9, 155 people have died and 65 swine flu cases have been officially confirmed. A total of 969,247 have become ill with respiratory diseases since the epidemic's outbreak.
As of November 10, 189 people have died. Some 1,122,188 are suffering from ARVI, of whom 57,286 have been hospitalized.
As of November 11, 213 people have died. Some 1,192,000 are suffering from ARVI, of whom 62,000 have been hospitalized and 350 are in ICU.
As of November 14, 282 people have died (17 died during the last 24 hrs). Some 73,373 have been hospitalized since the outbreak (3,682 during the last 24 hrs).
As of early November 16, 299 have died (17 during the last 24 hrs); 1,364,939 have fallen ill since the outbreak (17,401 during the last 24 hrs).
As of November 17, 328 people have died; 1,457,000 have fallen ill since the outbreak (56,000 during the last 24 hrs).
They called me because I'm in the donor database, and they asked me to donate blood for a kid suffering from cancer. I went there and spent two hours standing in line just to take a blood test — to find out if I’m a good match for this kid as a donor. And you know why? It’s because the moms there told me what kind of conditions they have in that miserable oncological center at Lomonosov St — how they live there in gloom, how they are purposefully mistreated — and that the impression it creates is that they [hospital personnel] do it to get as many kids as possible dying and freeing up beds. Otherwise, expedient donation would have been streamlined in this country a long time ago.
Instead, everything is being done to make the person who came here in the morning to take a blood test never come back — so that the moms will never find those donors, because there’s hardly a person who can afford to spend more than two hours just to take a half-minute blood test. They still make handwritten medical records there. Can’t the Ministry of Health Care scramble up 200 bucks for a vintage PC? Can’t this country have a computerized database? What else is there to think but that hidden cannibalism is at work? For…where do these people go? Nobody wants them.
Our authorities care about hospitals only when some other Kushnaryov dies at Izyum rayon (county) hospital. Short of that, nobody cares about it, because if the Health Care Minister’s kid gets cancer, he will not be treated at Lomonosov St. He will be treated at the world’s best clinics. That’s how we live.
— lawyer and activist Tetyana Montyan
Tetyana Montyan surprised everyone when she chose to represent Vasyl Tsushko in court. She obviously places a high value on her time, but the case she makes in this report has stood the test of time.
Our men would rather take part in breakaleg “free Rudy” rescue raids than take a trip to the nearest public hospital and see what it’s like. We know that Rudy and Shufry have private clinics at their disposal. But what about those countryside folks, whose villages NUNS promised to equip with ambulances? How many ambulances have been delivered?
