By Elaine Mikesell Nine-year-old Valentyna Deyak is a bright, cheerful girl who lives in Transcarpathia, the extreme southwest corner of Ukraine. She is very tiny, since from birth her health has been severely hampered with scoliosis (curvature of the spine). At her stage in life, her body will not allow the natural changes a young [...]
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Ukrainian Health Care Officials visit Rolling Fields
April 11, 2012 | 2:05 pm
By Jean Szilagyi CONNEAUTVILLE–The Minister of Health for the State of Transcarpathia, Ukraine, Dr. Roman Schnitzer and Dr. Ivan Malesh, Administrator of the City Hospital in Beregovo, Transcarpathia, visited Rolling Fields in Conneautville, Ohio on March 20,2012. The doctors were visiting American Healthcare facilities in order to formulate a strategic plan to update and improve [...]
Transcarpathian Officials Visit Ohio on Fact-finding Tour
April 1, 2012 | 6:55 pm
By Andrew J. Tonn COLUMBUS–Dr. Roman Schnitzer, Minister of Health for the State of Transcarpathia, Ukraine and Dr. Ivan Malesh, Administrator of Beregova City Hospital in Transcarpathia visited the US for several weeks as guests of SARA on a medical fact-finding mission.Drs. Schnitzer (a general surgeon) and Malesh (a neurologist) came to see advanced medical [...]
Dr. Ákos Kiss and Sharing America’s Resources Abroad
October 21, 2010 | 4:12 pm
Translated from the original Hungarian by Rev. Csaba Orosz, SARA Director for Romania BUDAPEST — The relationship of Dr. Ákos Kiss with SARA goes back to the year 2004. In that year, in the children’s surgery unit in Miskolc–the largest in Hungary–a young man from Beregszász presented himself suffering from a grave case of funnel-shaped [...]
Field Notes From Jean and a Plea for the Orphanage
August 13, 2010 | 3:06 pm
By S. Jean Szilagyi, SARA Co-founder and Secretary TRANSCARPATHIA, UKRAINE — Stephen recently met with the former commander of the Hungarian Customs Service. He, his wife and his son (who is an English teacher) are anxious to help smooth the crossing to Ukraine for SARA personnel and humanitarian equipment and supplies. Yesterday, we crossed the [...]