ABD Capital donates life-saving equipment to Children of Chornobyl partner hospital

KYIV - The firm of ABD Capital-Ukraine and its Swiss parent company ABD Capital SA held a press conference in Kyiv on May 31 to present to the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund and its partner hospital, the Amosov Cardiac Surgery Institute, an advanced cardiac ultrasound system and anesthesia station to help provide life-saving operations for young children with congenital heart defects. The gift was made possible thanks to the efforts of Hans Jorg Rudolph of Barclays Capital, the Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. and Natalia Zahorodnova of ABD-Ukraine following a gala fund-raiser in London featuring members of the Kyiv Ballet (Suziria Aniko) and the designer house of Anna Rossa. Of the $200,000 raised, half was designated for the Beslan Children's Relief Fund, and the other half for the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund. Above, Dr. Ihor Lazoryzhynets, a cardiac surgeon at the Amosov Institute, holds a certificate from ABD Capital and from the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund marking the donation of the new technology for his cardiac surgery wing. On the left are Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky of the relief fund and Halyna Mokryk, who helped to facilitate the donation.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, August 7, 2005, No. 32, Vol. LXXIII

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