Two buildings of the national children's specialized Okhmatdyt hospital in Kyiv and several houses have been left without heating because of a break in the central hot-water main pipe in Peremohy Avenue.
The water main break occurred at around 1600 local time on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Ukrainian emergency authorities told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday. As a result, the endocrinology and onco-haematology units, with around 130 children as in-patients, have remained without heating.
“60 children from the endocrinology building have been moved to other buildings; as for the onco-haemotology building, it is a sterile zone, and the children cannot be removed from there, so we turned on radiators and generators there. So far the temperature has not dropped,” the spokesperson said.
The country’s chief emergency officer, Serhiy Bochkovsky, immediately travelled to the scene. He is organizing the rescue effort to keep the premises warm. Rescue teams from the Kyiv city administration and the country’s acting health minister, Vasyl Lazoryshynets, are also working at the scene.
