Rised:
2024 year: 2 122 767 ₴14 years: 58 458 610 ₴
The road of hope
COLLECTED UAH 101,864. Simple Help Fund, Privatbank clients and Ufond readers contributed UAH 101,864.
Sophia Hondoka’s parents bought the occluder themselves.
Dear friends! If there are no objections, the funds raised for Sofia Hondoka will be transferred to the treatment of other Ufond wards, as part of the Ufond.Serdtse program and the Fill the Heart with Life campaign . Sophia Hondoka will be saved by urgent heart surgery.
Sofia is 14 years old. She lives in the small town of Vladimirets, Rivne region. She was diagnosed with heart disease and circulatory disorders when she was three years old. And then for many years doctors postponed the operation. This year Sofia is 14 years old, and she has no more strength than the old woman. The girl was exhausted by constant shortness of breath, edema, weakness, fainting. Only urgent heart surgery will return Sofia to a normal life. Kiev cardiac surgeons are ready to perform it without opening the chest: close the hole in the heart with a special implant - an occluder. But the occluder is expensive, a family with three children and a modest income does not have such money.
At the age of three, Sofia caught a bad cold. This was not the first case of SARS in the girl’s life, and the pediatrician sent Sofia for examination to the medical center in Rivne.
"I couldn’t believe what I found out!" It turned out that her daughter had a congenital heart defect, an atrial septal defect. I cried all my eyes then. But then she came to her senses - tears of grief will not help - and we began to treat her daughter - recalls her mother, Svetlana.
The cardiologist recommended that the girl be brought for examination every six months and prescribed her medication. Sofia then decided not to operate: she had a smaller defect, the doctor hoped that the hole in the heart would close by itself, it happens.
But hopes did not come true, the hole in Sofia’s heart began to grow.
- When my daughter began to grow intensively, the size of the hole in her heart increased with her. Sofia has become pale, she complains of chest pain, - Svetlana shares her experiences. "My daughter says her heart aches." Girlfriends go to different sports clubs, she also wants, but can not.
Due to her weakness, the girl often becomes ill in class, and teachers let her go home.
On the advice of a pediatrician, Svetlana brought her daughter for a consultation at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery named after NM Amosova. It turned out that the doctors in Rivne were wrong in their testimony and that the atrial septal defect in Sofia was twice as large - with a significant increase in the right heart.
"The defect was discovered too late, heart failure and arrhythmia are developing," said the cardiologist. - If you do not have surgery now, Sofia will have to walk with a pacemaker for the rest of her life. And you can forget about any active activities.
Doctors are ready to close the defect in a gentle way, without opening the chest, with a special implant - an occluder. The operation itself will be done at the expense of the state budget, and an expensive occluder must be paid for. But the girl’s parents do not have such an opportunity. The family has three children, only Sofia’s father and mother are on maternity leave.
- The road from Rivne to Kyiv has become a "road of hope" for us. So I want Sofia to recover. I believe in our doctors, and I believe that thanks to caring people, my daughter will be healthy.
Author Lev Katkov
Photo from the personal archive of the family
Head of the Department of Endovascular Treatment of Congenital and Acquired Heart Diseases of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery named after NM Amosova Igor Ditkovsky (Kiev): "Given the anatomy of heart disease and the initial signs of heart failure, Sofia needs surgery - endovascular closure of the atrial septal defect with an occluder. This will avoid the development of pulmonary hypertension and other complications.
The supplier of the occluder issued an invoice for UAH 101,864 .
Dear friends! If you decide to help Hondoka Sofia, don’t be embarrassed by the price of salvation. Any of your donations will be gratefully accepted. All the necessary details are in the Fund. You can use ourselectronic payment system , making a donation from a bank card or electronic cash, including from abroad, as well as take part in the campaign - Fill your heart with life! "
Responded (took the details): 27 people Helped
: 27 people
Collected: 101 864 UAH
Sophia Hondoka’s parents bought the occluder themselves.
Dear friends! If there are no objections, the funds raised for Sofia Hondoka will be transferred to the treatment of other Ufond wards, as part of the Ufond.Serdtse program and the Fill the Heart with Life campaign . Sophia Hondoka will be saved by urgent heart surgery.
Sofia is 14 years old. She lives in the small town of Vladimirets, Rivne region. She was diagnosed with heart disease and circulatory disorders when she was three years old. And then for many years doctors postponed the operation. This year Sofia is 14 years old, and she has no more strength than the old woman. The girl was exhausted by constant shortness of breath, edema, weakness, fainting. Only urgent heart surgery will return Sofia to a normal life. Kiev cardiac surgeons are ready to perform it without opening the chest: close the hole in the heart with a special implant - an occluder. But the occluder is expensive, a family with three children and a modest income does not have such money.
At the age of three, Sofia caught a bad cold. This was not the first case of SARS in the girl’s life, and the pediatrician sent Sofia for examination to the medical center in Rivne.
"I couldn’t believe what I found out!" It turned out that her daughter had a congenital heart defect, an atrial septal defect. I cried all my eyes then. But then she came to her senses - tears of grief will not help - and we began to treat her daughter - recalls her mother, Svetlana.
The cardiologist recommended that the girl be brought for examination every six months and prescribed her medication. Sofia then decided not to operate: she had a smaller defect, the doctor hoped that the hole in the heart would close by itself, it happens.
But hopes did not come true, the hole in Sofia’s heart began to grow.
- When my daughter began to grow intensively, the size of the hole in her heart increased with her. Sofia has become pale, she complains of chest pain, - Svetlana shares her experiences. "My daughter says her heart aches." Girlfriends go to different sports clubs, she also wants, but can not.
Due to her weakness, the girl often becomes ill in class, and teachers let her go home.
On the advice of a pediatrician, Svetlana brought her daughter for a consultation at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery named after NM Amosova. It turned out that the doctors in Rivne were wrong in their testimony and that the atrial septal defect in Sofia was twice as large - with a significant increase in the right heart.
"The defect was discovered too late, heart failure and arrhythmia are developing," said the cardiologist. - If you do not have surgery now, Sofia will have to walk with a pacemaker for the rest of her life. And you can forget about any active activities.
Doctors are ready to close the defect in a gentle way, without opening the chest, with a special implant - an occluder. The operation itself will be done at the expense of the state budget, and an expensive occluder must be paid for. But the girl’s parents do not have such an opportunity. The family has three children, only Sofia’s father and mother are on maternity leave.
- The road from Rivne to Kyiv has become a "road of hope" for us. So I want Sofia to recover. I believe in our doctors, and I believe that thanks to caring people, my daughter will be healthy.
Author Lev Katkov
Photo from the personal archive of the family
Head of the Department of Endovascular Treatment of Congenital and Acquired Heart Diseases of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery named after NM Amosova Igor Ditkovsky (Kiev): "Given the anatomy of heart disease and the initial signs of heart failure, Sofia needs surgery - endovascular closure of the atrial septal defect with an occluder. This will avoid the development of pulmonary hypertension and other complications.
The supplier of the occluder issued an invoice for UAH 101,864 .
Dear friends! If you decide to help Hondoka Sofia, don’t be embarrassed by the price of salvation. Any of your donations will be gratefully accepted. All the necessary details are in the Fund. You can use ourselectronic payment system , making a donation from a bank card or electronic cash, including from abroad, as well as take part in the campaign - Fill your heart with life! "
Responded (took the details): 27 people Helped
: 27 people
Collected: 101 864 UAH