How blackouts in Ukraine affect chronically-ill children

Some need power for machines to help them breathe, others need specialty medication. We profiled a family that had to flee Ukraine to take care of their child with cystic fibrosis.

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She knew it from her instincts as a mother: once her child began coughing this dry, deep, bronchial sound — they had to risk their liv…