Acta medica Lituanica ISSN 1392-0138 eISSN 2029-4174
2022. Online ahead of print
Children’s Doctors Against the War: Call for Action Now
Brussels, March 10, 2022
Two weeks have passed since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. Despite 141 countries voting in the UN General Assembly for the Russian army to stop fighting and withdraw from another sovereign country, Ukraine, the fighting is increasingly bloody and brutal. The war has led to 2.5 million people including about 1 million children fleeing from their homes and becoming refugees. There are 79 children confirmed killed including 18 months old infant in Mariupol. Most of child fatalities result from attacks from the air or with rockets. We stand together with Ukrainian children, families and the heroic medical and nursing staff calling for the action now:
- we ask the governments of our countries to do more to ensure the safety of children in Ukraine, to stop the war and first of all to stop rockets and bombs attacks on civil infrastructure of Ukraine;
- we ask Russian paediatricians and especially leaders of paediatric organizations in Russia to express clear and loud position against the war in Ukraine and to do everything in their power to stop the war;
- we confirm once again solidarity and professional support for children’s doctors and nurses in Ukraine.
Our voices are stronger than rockets and bombs! Slava Ukraine!
Prof. Arunas Valiulis, Vilnius, Lithuania
Prof. Andrew Bush, London, UK
Prof. Bruce K Rubin, Richmond, USA
Prof. Vaidotas Urbonas, Vilnius, Lithuania, on behalf of Lithuanian Paediatric Society
Prof. Ilze Groppe, Riga, Latvia, on behalf of Latvian Paediatric Society
Dr. Chris Pruunsild, Tartu, Estonia, on behalf of Estonian Paediatric Association
Prof. Jarosław Peregud-Pogorzelski, Szczecin, Poland, on behalf of the Polish Society of Paediatrics
Dr. Lars Gelander, Borås, Sweden, on behalf of Swedish Paediatric Society
Prof. Ketil Størdal, Oslo, Norway, on behalf of Norwegian Paediatric Society
Prof. Risto Lapatto, Helsinki, Finland, on behalf of Paediatric Section of Finnish Medical Association
Dr. Klaus Birkelund Johansen, Aarhus, Denmark, on behalf of Danish Pediatric Society
Dr. Corinne Wyder, Burgdorf, Switzerland, on behalf of Swiss Society of Paediatrics
Dr. Karoly Illy, Utrecht, the Netherlands, on behalf of Dutch Paediatric Society
Prof. Annamaria Staiano, Naples, Italy, on behalf of Italian Pediatric Society
Dr. Paolo Biasci, Roma, Italy, on behalf of Federazione Italiana Medici Pediatri
Dr. Luis Sánchez Santos, Santiago, Spain, Spain on behalf of Spanish Paediatric Association
Dr. Karin Geitmann, Hagen, Germany, on behalf of Deutsche Berufsverband der Kinder- und Jugendärzte
Dr. Shimon Barak, Jerusalem, Israel, on behalf of Israeli Ambulatory Pediatric Association and European Confederation of Primary Care Paediatricians (ECPCP)
Prof. Delane Shingadia, London, UK, on behalf of European Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID)
Prof. Marielle Pijnenburg, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on behalf of Paediatric Assembly of European Respiratory Society (ERS)
Dr. Hans Juergen Dornbusch, Graz, Austria, on behalf of Austrian National Society for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Prof. Yıldız Camcıoğlu, Ankara, Turkey, on behalf of Turkish National Pediatric Society
Dr. Aida Mujkic, Zagreb, Croatia, on behalf of Croatian Pediatric Society
Prof. Leonid Dubey, Lviv, Ukraine, on behalf of Ukrainian Academy of Paediatrics (UAP-SMS)
Dr. Mark Buttigieg, Gozo, Malta, on behalf of Maltese Paediatric Association
Prof. Yvan Vanderplas, Brussels, Belgium, on behalf of Belgian Society of Pediatrics
Prof. Jonathan D. Klein, Chicago, USA, on behalf of International Association for Adolescent Health
Prof. Marina Mamenko, Kyiv, Ukraine, on behalf of Ukrainian Academy of Paediatric Specialities (UAPs)
Dr. Sofia Sani, Athens, Greece, on behalf of Union of Private Practice Paediatricians of Attica
Prof. Ninel Revenco, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, on behalf of Moldavian Pediatric Society
Dr. Serge Allard, Luxembourg, on behalf of Société Luxembourgeoise de Pédiatrie
Prof. Maia Chkhaidze, Tbilisi, Georgia, on behalf of Georgian Academy of Pediatrics
Assoc. Prof. Nebojša Kavarič, Podgorica, Montenegro, on behalf of Association for Preventive Pediatrics
Dr. Elizabeth Whittaker, London, UK, on behalf of British Paediatric Allergy Immunology & Infection Group
Prof. Ivane Chkhaidze, Tbilisi, Georgia, on behalf of Pediatric Section of Georgian Respiratory Association
Prof. Justine Bacchetta, Lyon, France, on behalf of Société Francophone de Néphrologie Pédiatrique
Dr. Stefania Manetti, Sant‘Agnello, Italy, on behalf of Associazione Culturale Pediatri
Prof. Zachi Grossman, Tel Aviv, Israel, on behalf of Israel Pediatric Association
Dr. Michael Anastasiades, Nicosia, Cyprus, on behalf of Cyprus Pediatric Society
Prof. Doina Anca Pleșca, Bucharest, Romania, on behalf of Romanian Pediatric Society
Prof. Inês Azevedo, Lisbon, Portugal, on behalf of Pediatric Portuguese Society
Dr. Stefano del Torso, Padua, Italy, on behalf of ChildCare WorldWide
Prof. Tom Stiris, Oslo, Norway
Prof. Adamos Hadjipanayis, Nicosia, Cyprus
Prof. Artur Mazur, Rzeszów, Poland
Dr. Łukasz Dębiński, Warsaw, Poland
Dr. Naveen Thacker, Delhi, India
Prof. Thomas Ferkol, Washington, USA
Prof. Eitan Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel
Prof. Ann De Guchtenaere, Gent, Belgium
Dr. Juan José Díaz, Oviedo, Spain
Dr. Ivan Bambir, Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Liviana Da Dalt, Padova, Italy
Prof. Thomas F Scanlin, Philadelphia, USA
Prof. Miles Weinberger, San Diego, USA
Prof. Samya Nasr, Ann Arbor, USA
Prof. Peter Greally, Dublin, Ireland
Prof. Prof Basil Elnazir, Dublin, Ireland
Assoc. Prof. Javier Korta Murua, Donostia, Spain
Prof. Viner Russell, London, UK
Prof. Koray Boduroglu, Ankara, Turkey
Prof. Michael Fayon, Bordeaux, France
Prof. Michael Newhouse, Hamilton, Canada
Prof. Giovanni Rossi, Genova, Italy
Prof. Tony Kriseman, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Prof. Angelo Giardino, Salt Lake City, USA
Prof. Alan Brody, Cincinnati, USA
Prof. Johan Carl, Cleveland, USA
Assoc. Prof. Daiva Parakininkas, Milwaukee, USA
Prof. Olafur Thorvaldsson, Reykjavik, Iceland
Prof. Petr Pohunek, Prague, Czech Republic
Prof. Beth Harkness, Washington, USA
Assoc. Prof. Paul Boesch, Rochester, USA
Dr. Martin Samuels, London & Stoke-on-Trent, UK
Prof. Ruud Nijman, London, UK
Dr. Harry Opsimos, Athens, Greece
Prof. Joe Brierley, London, UK, on behalf of ECHO Group of Children’s Hospitals
Dr. Dolors Canadell, Barcelona, Spain on behalf of Spanish Paediatric Foundation
Prof. Andrew Colin, Miami, USA
Prof. Jean-Paul Praud, Sherbrooke, Canada
Prof. Renato Stein, Porto Alegre, Brasil
Dr. Claude Billeaud, Bordeaux, France
Dr. Ana Ferrari, Roma, Italy
Prof. Hermione Lyall, London, UK
Prof. Eugenio Baraldi, Padova, Italy
Dr. Gabriela Kubatova, Prague, Czech Republic
Prof. Rob Ross Russell, Cambridge, UK
Prof. Julije Meštrović, Split, Croatia
Dr. Nataša Toplak, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Prof. Oana Marginean, Tirgu-Mures, Romania
Prof Olivia Boyer, Paris, France
Dr. Thomas Siebler, Luxembourg
Dr. Laura Reali, Roma, Italy
Dr. Elianne Vrijlandt, Groningen, the Netherlands
Assist. Prof. Jernej Završnik, Maribor, Slovenia
Assoc. Prof. Olga Cîrstea, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Prof. Pier Giorgio Gamba, Padova, Italy
Prof. Mehmet Vural, Istanbul, Turkey
Prof. Manuel Soto-Martinez, San Chose, Costa Rica
Dr. Lutvo Sporisevic, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dr. Joana Rios, Ângelo - Loures, Portugal
Prof. Antonio Ruggiero, Roma, Italy
Dr. Julian Vyas, Auckland, New Zealand
Prof. Martin J White, Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Alex Rykov, Kyiv, Ukraine
Prof. Oleksandr Katilov, Vinnitsa, Ukraine
Prof. Valeriy Pokhylko, Poltava, Ukraine
Dr. Ivanna Romankevych, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Contact: Arunas Valiulis (Lithuania), tel.: +370 699 85185, e-mail: arunas.valiulis@mf.vu.lt