Unicef ambassador’s 71.5m followers shown tenacious perinatal work with pregnant women and newborns in besieged city
Highlights
- David Beckham hands over control of his Instagram account to a doctor working in the city of Kharkiv.
- Iryna is an anaesthesiologist and head of the regional perinatal centre.
- She showed her followers the cramped basement where all pregnant women and new mothers were evacuated to during the first day of the Russian invasion.
- She posted photographs of newborns in the intensive care unit, where they relied on oxygen generators donated by Unicef.
- In one clip, she filmed a young mother, Yana, holding her son, Mykhailo, who was born with breathing problems, and whose family home was destroyed.
- The former footballer urged his followers to donate to the charity, which is working in Ukraine.