Four children with cancer — just 9 months to 9 years old— have been evacuated from Ukraine to St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, the U.S. State Department said.
Highlights
- Four Ukrainian children, ages 9 months to 9 years, have been airlifted from Poland to Memphis.
- St.
- Jude is the first hospital in the U.S.
- to receive Ukrainian patients, the hospital said in a press release.
- The hospital said it will provide the children with cancer care and “trauma-informed psychosocial therapy” The State Department said it “supported airlift of these pediatric oncology patients and some of their immediate family members from Poland” to Memphis International Airport, but did not offer more details about the role it played.
- Russia’s war in Ukraine has forced 10 million Ukrainians to flee their homes, U.N.