Twenty-two-month-old Yeva Vakulenko is one of more than 500 Ukrainian children with cancer who have been evacuated to a clinic in Poland.
"We triage the patients when they arrive at our center," said Dr. Marcin Włodarski, a pediatric hematologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, who is volunteering at the Unicorn Clinic of Marian Wilemski in Bocheniec, in central Poland.
The evacuations began immediately after Russia attacked Ukraine on Feb. 24, and is a joint effort of St. Jude, the Polish Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Poland's Fundacja Herosi , and Tabletochki, a Ukrainian charity that advocates for children with cancer. "At times we can have convoys with only 20-something patients but we can have up to 70 patients at a time and even more," she said.
More than 3 million people -- more than half of them children -- have fled Ukraine as the country faces a brutal military onslaught by Russian forces that has targeted civilians. Of those, more than 2 million people have arrived in Poland, the largest of Ukraine's neighbors to its west. A Polish health ministry official said Friday that the country is treating 1,500 refugees in hospitals, many of whom are suffering hypothermia after their journey, and 840 of whom are children.
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