When the WhatsApp message comes in, Yuri and Dr. Lana Yanishevski start working. The couple are translating medical records for children with cancer living in Ukraine who need to be evacuated to other countries to continue their cancer treatment.“It’s very important,” Lana Yanishevski, a pediatrician in private practice in Memphis, told TODAY. “Every chemotherapy protocol depends very much on the good diagnosis and the diagnosis already made. Doctors need to know what was done, which treatments they’re on and which arm of the treatment. So without the translation, it’s very difficult.”Helping from afarWhen Russia invaded Ukraine a little over a month ago, the Yanishevskis grappled with a lot of tough emotions. The couple —who had emigrated from Kyiv to the United States in 1991 — worried about loved ones still living in the country and felt like they wanted to do something to help their home country. Yuri Yanishevski reached out to a former high school classmate and offered to send money, but he couldn’t buy anything at the time.“Later on when we spoke again he goes, ‘I started buying SIM cards for the local defense battalion and so I can use the money,’” Yuri Yanishevski, an engineer at ALSAC,…
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