Irish aid resumes Chernobyl children’s life-saving operations in time for Christmas

Dr Novick dressed as Santa post surgeries with patient, his father, and volunteer nurse.

For the first time in two years, life-saving surgeries are being performed on children in Chernobyl thanks to Irish humanitarian aid.

Adi Roche’s Chernobyl Children International (CCI), has flown a team of leading surgeons to Ukraine to carry out urgently needed operations on babies and young children from the Chernobyl region who are suffering from genetic heart defects.