affecting children. correspondent mike tobin is in lviv tonight with that good evening, mike. good evening, bret. it s up to about 2.5 million refugees driven over the western border of ukraine. about 10% of them stop here in the city of lviv. but especially for the sick, just because they have escaped the fighting does not mean that they have left their troubles behind. in time of war the most vulnerable face the greatest suffering. melania is a cancer patient from the town of dnipro which was bombed today. she is being treated at a hospital in lviv in the west away from most of the fighting. the chernobyl hospital is named because it originally treated victims of the 1986 nuclear disaster. now the hospital treats pediatric cancer patients. kids with kidney failure get dialysis here. kids needing dialysis face a unique risk during this war. they need their blood cleaned
today. she s being treat in a hospital in lviv in the west away from most of the fighting. the chernobyl hospital is named because it originally treated victims of the 1986 nuclear disaster. now the hospital treats pediatric cancer patients. kids with kidney failure get dialysis here. kids needing dialysis face a unique risk in this war. they need their blood cleaned every two days. a little less than the time it takes to first escape the fighting, then battle the traffic, check points, and crowds escaping over ukraine s western border. those who know stop in lviv. they get treatment now in lviv, safer than other parts of ukraine. the plane station has been a hub. millions have passed through hoping for a next train to another country to safety. those forced to stop here have no plan, nowhere to rest. often the first contact is an
western border without getting their blood cleaned. we are shoot every three every other day so three time per week we do it but there is a huge queue on the board and for patients it is a risky situation really. that chernobyl hospital is doing four times its normal volume. the deputy director says they have enough supplies the make it another two weeks of acute need are the immunosuppress nt drugs used for the kids who have had kidney transplants and prevent their bodies from rejecting the transplant. gillian. gillian: mike tobin in lviv. bill: analysis now. fox news contributor dan hoffman, former c.i.a. station chief. great to have you back and good morning. the convoy dispersed overnight a day after we saw that brutal
aid organization like the red cross. they need some psychological help at first. because they escape from war and they were totally in panic. every act of kindness is doing is doing this and if we re united, we can stand anything. the deputy director of the chernobyl hospital tells me they have enough supplies to keep treating kids for another two weeks. they are running low on i knew no suppressant drugs. they are from the kidney transplants that keep them from rejecting organs in lviv, fox news. from ukraine, coming up, the
piling up, families get separated. it s family and i was with my sister, there were thousands of people. there were not enough and now in lyviv to the west of the country, the chernobyl hospital was originally set up to help victims of the 1986 nuclear disaster. they treat kids with cancer and kids with kidney failure. and the kids depended on dialysis need to get their blood cleaned every two days. but the combination of escaping the fighting, waiting in line to deal with the traffic and then making it over the border just before they start to find treatment again, it takes too long. so, the lucky ones are able to stop in lyviv to get dialysis