After that, thirty-year-old Svitlana Lukyanchuk risked her life to return upstairs to a treatment facility where five additional infants who couldn’t be transferred to the refuge were hooked up to dialysis equipment.
She stayed with them in spite of the danger, ensuring that their life-saving techniques could continue as the sound of Russian missiles hitting the capital caused the ground to tremble.
The paediatrician was killed when a bomb hit the hospital unexpectedly, breaking the dialysis center’s windows and knocking her off her feet.
She was one of the two adults who perished in Monday’s carnage at the major pediatric facility in Ukraine, Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital.
Medical staff reported that major portions of the complex, including intensive care units, surgery rooms, and a prenatal area, were damaged, and that over 300 people—eight of them children—were hurt.
Svitlana had been handling the dialysis for a few of the injured babies.
