Surgical Infrastructure: Restoring Water to Dnipro’s Regional Medical Center
Project: Water & Health (WASH) | Focus: Pediatric & Maternity Care
The Regional Family Health Medical Center in Dnipro is a critical sanctuary for the oblast’s families, serving over 25,000 inpatients and providing 241,000 consultations annually. The facility specifically houses the region's primary Children’s Ward, treating high-risk pediatric cases, infants, and conflict-related trauma in minors.
Following the Kakhovka Dam disaster, the water supply to this pediatric wing became unstable. Fixing it was mandatory, but the engineering risk was extreme.
The Challenge: Digging Through a Minefield of Utilities The ground beneath the Children’s Ward is a dense web of unmapped utilities—high-voltage cables powering incubators, communication lines for medical data, and gas mains.
Using heavy machinery was impossible. A single strike could sever power to critical life-support systems or rupture a gas line next to a ward full of children.
Precision Manual Excavation: Our teams opted for a zero-risk approach. What is typically a fast machine job became a two-month operation of manual excavation.
Zero Disruption: We executed this work without interrupting a single day of care. Every meter of trench was hand-dug with extreme caution to ensure the safety of the young patients above ground was never compromised by the work below.
The Outcome Funded by Diamondback Energy and The World Orphan Fund, this project successfully modernized the water intake for the children’s facility. We didn’t just repair a pipe; we secured the operational safety of the region’s most vital pediatric resource.
