Near the 1,100 days of war in Ukraine, the Government still has trouble attending all the needs of the population while Russian attacks persist. Therefore, some begin their own projects to help those who need it and it is the case of Ros Filippenko.
LASEXTA has accompanied this young man to a basement in Járkiv, place four meters underground than has become a drug warehouse. “To the second I saw it, I came up with the idea of transforming it into a bunker. This is where we retain the medication that many people need in jarciv,” explains the creator of ‘Mission Kharkiv’.
At the beginning of the Russian invasion, he had to stop his mathematics studies and got to work with this project. “I approached the nearest hospital I had. I asked about the list of medications they needed and tried to get them in Spain,” he explains.
In fact, his first public request for help made it in Al Rojo Vivo, in Lasxta. And since then He has managed to do what the Ukrainian government has achieved: to provide medications almost inaccessible to the population. Pharmaceuticals and NGOs are entrusted with critical medication, very high prices and very difficult to conserve. In the cameras they know that they will be safe, even, of electricity cuts.
“We do not have means. If it were not for ‘Mission Kharkiv’, I would not have been able to do these fifteen chemotherapy sessions,” explains a patient who has been able to be treated thanks to Filippenko.
In total, have distributed 150 tons of medicationssupplied to about thirty hospitals and completed 2,500 chemotherapy treatments. “The first four sessions I cost them, I still don’t know how. From the fifth, I could take that concern from above,” thanks another patient.
“A medication can be four times the average salary or five times the average salary. And for a treatment a patient usually needs five or six doses,” adds Filippenko. Therefore, he hopes to continue receiving donations to continue saving lives.
Source: Lasexta
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