Solidarity with Ukraine, three years on…
For Mécénat Servier, February 27, 2025 is not just World NGO Day. Rather, it is an opportunity to renew with greater conviction than ever our commitment alongside our nonprofit organization partners around the world. We are also pleased to share with you the progress of some of the projects we have been sponsoring in Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict.
Mécénat Servier made a commitment to humanitarian action starting in the 2021-2022 fiscal year, with an additional financial endowment of 12 million euros and support for projects to rebuild and improve Ukraine’s medical infrastructure, led by local NGOs. Here below we hear from two of these organizations on the importance of such partnerships and the tremendous progress they have made possible.
Diagnosing and treating cancer alongside the Krona Foundation
We share common values with Mécénat Servier, as well as a common goal of addressing urgent humanitarian needs and rebuilding Ukraine’s medical infrastructure. With this in mind, we got in touch in the spring of 2022 and were fortunate enough to secure financial support for three major projects.
Our first project was to purchase a slide scanner for the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital. This device is used to scan and digitize cell or tissue samples taken from patients for microscopic examination. Its acquisition marks a significant step forward in the war on childhood cancer, as it enables us to use cutting-edge diagnostic technology.
Second, we are renovating the neurosurgery unit at the Kyiv National Cancer Institute and creating a new unit specializing in neurosurgical oncology. Once operational, this unit will offer specialized care to over 500 patients a year, a service that is not available elsewhere in the country.
Last but not least, the National Cancer Institute is creating a robotized pharmacy that will automatically prepare and dispense treatments for each patient, reducing waiting times and improving medicine stock management.
These projects all demonstrate how the collaboration between Mécénat Servier and the KRONA Foundation are making a real difference in improving healthcare services in Ukraine. Together, we are helping to create modern infrastructures equipped with innovative technologies in order to offer cutting-edge treatments, increase the availability of medical care, improve chances of survival, and enhance patients’ quality of life.
Olena Matsibokh, Director of the Krona Foundation
Using mobile telemedicine to care for people injured with the Fédération Nationale de la Protection Civile
We were put in touch with Mécénat Servier by the Ukrainian Embassy in France. Mécénat Servier’s support for Ukraine and its desire to develop innovative projects to strengthen the local healthcare system resonated with our humanitarian commitments.
With the funding from Mécénat Servier, we were able to carry out a pilot project to create a mobile telemedicine service in Medvyn, a community relatively far from hospital and specialized medical facilities, and with no public transport to get there. Now equipped with two vehicles and two telemedicine kits, it is possible to provide home consultations, transport patients or medical analysis samples to medical facilities, as well as distribute pharmaceutical products. By the end of December 2024, just over a year after its inauguration by the French Ambassador to Ukraine, this mobile telemedicine service had carried out 764 consultations and transported 362 patients.
Another major project involved the donation of a bone densitometer to the Kharkiv Hospital. This is an X-ray medical imaging device that can be used to assess a patient’s bone density, plan their rehabilitation, and evaluate results. Brought into service in August 2024, following the renovation of the hospital that had been damaged, this equipment is currently used to treat those wounded during the conflict.
The Fédération Nationale de la Protection Civile is deeply honored by our relationship with Mécénat Servier, and we truly hope to work together on new humanitarian crisis initiatives, in both France and abroad.
Marc-Antoine Bacot, International & Humanitarian Cooperation Project Manager, Fédération Nationale de la Protection Civile
