Ukraine donations blend professional
duty, personal attachment for Calvary
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Calvary Hospital CEO Frank Calamari delivers first-aid supplies bound for Ukraine to
the Afya Foundation in Yonkers. From left, Calamari, Afya CEO Danielle Butin, Dr. Irina
Makarevich, director of Medical Services at Cal vary’s Brooklyn Campus; and Melissa
Bastin, director, Materials Management. Photo courtesy Calvary Hospital
her belief and first responders
in Ukraine are being overwhelmed
with the chaotic, everchanging
nature of war.
“We still can’t believe this
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is actually happening. My first
cousin is a nurse in Ukraine.
She reports medical personnel
there are overwhelmed,” she
said. “They need sterile gauze,
saline, and stocks of first aid material
which are in real shortage
and easily run out. This donation
of first aid supplies is a tremendous
sign of compassion and
will help.”
Calvary employees are also
helping the people of Ukraine by
contributing to charities including
Catholic Relief Services and
The Knights of Columbus.
“We have about 30 staff of
Ukrainian and Russian heritage
at Calvary. While they help
carry out our mission of providing
palliative and end-of-life care
for individuals and their families
here, they’re very concerned
for the health and well-being of
their families and friends back
home and in neighboring countries,”
said Calvary CEO Frank
Calamari, who brought boxes of
first-aid staples to the depot with
Makarevich, director of Medical
Services at Calvary’s 25-bed
Brooklyn campus.
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“I was born in Kyiv and lived
in Ukraine until I was 27,” she
said. “I have a lot of memories,
and my heart goes out to people
there.”
Calvary Hospital, which
has a 200-bed inpatient location
on Eastchester Road in the
Bronx, worked under the guidance
of the Greater New York
Hospital Association and with
the US-Ukraine Foundation,
the Afya Foundation and supplier
Medline to deliver clotting
bandages, medical tape, slings,
dressings, antiseptics and more
to Afya’s warehouse in Yonkers
where it will be packed for shipment.
Born in Rivine, a Western
Ukraine locale that has also
been under attack by Russian
forces, Irina Makarevich also
studied medicine in Russia’s
capital city St. Petersburg. The
war has been something beyond
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As war continues in Ukraine,
intensified by Russian bombardments
of besieged cities
in recent days amid attempts
at stalled peace talks by world
leaders, the conflict hits especially
close to home for those
with ties to the region. In an effort
to aid first responders and
health care professionals tending
to the needs of the victims
of the war in Ukraine, Calvary
Hospital donated $15,000 worth
of medical supplies to the region
this week.
For two Calvary health workers,
internist Dr. Irina Makarevich
and nurse Yuliya Moskalenko,
the violence overseas
is both indescribable and upsetting.
Moskalenko, a native
of Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv,
often finds it hard to describe
what’s happened to her home after
the city has been inundated
with missiles from Russian
forces.
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