Charity donates €80k device to Chernobyl after documentary

A CHILDREN’S charity has come to the aid of Chernobyl children after seeing harrowing scenes of orphans undergoing surgery without any anaesthetic.

The Cork-based Hope Foundation offered to donate an €80,000 anaesthetic machine to the Chernobyl Children’s Project International (CCPI) after the screening of the powerful documentary The Children beyond Chernobyl on RTÉ on Wednesday night.

The heart-rending programme about the work of the Chernobyl charity included scenes of a child being strapped to a chair in a grotty operating room. The young boy, who begged not to be tied to a chair, was blindfolded before having his tonsils removed without anaesthetic.