** Ukraine: girl without arm of symbol photo being treated in Rome, arrived with mother and aunt **

His photo on the hospital bed without an arm went around the world, becoming one of the symbolic images of the conflict in Ukraine. Now she Sasha, 9 years old, has arrived in Italy, in Rome, where she is a guest of the Palidoro house of the Ronald McDonald Children’s Foundation. The little girl was shot on March 4 in the suburbs of Kiev in an attack in which her father was killed. After the shooting, Sasha and her mom took refuge in a basement, where her injured arm went gangrene as the days went by. Once in the hospital, there was nothing more he could do to heal him. “The amputation of a limb is an indelible sign of suffering. Even more painful is knowing that it was caused by the delay in assistance due to the inability to move. “, observes Maria Chiara Roti, general director of the Ronald McDonald Italy Childhood Foundation, interviewed by Adnkronos. While her story went around the world, Sasha traveled from Ukraine to Rome, where two days ago “she arrived at our house with her mother and aunt. She is constantly followed by one of our operators dedicated to her, who passes by the day with her and plays the piano. We also put an interpreter and cultural mediator at your disposal “, says the director Roti. This morning Sasha” went to the hospital for the beginning of the clinical and surgical evaluations on her situation “, continues the dg of the Ronald McDonald Italy Childhood Foundation, guaranteeing small hospitality as long as it needs it: “The process that awaits it will be particularly long and we have given the availability that Casa Ronald will be the home of this family for a long time”. The Foundation, as it did last summer with refugees arriving from Afghanistan, also for the Ukrainian emergency “made itself available immediately with our partner hospital, the Bambino Gesù, to welcome families. , also offering them a whole range of services necessary in these dramatic situations, such as clothes, fresh food, telephone connection, psychological support with dedicated operators and an interpreter “. At the moment the two Ronald houses in Rome host four Ukrainian families, including the one by Sasha. However, the number is destined to grow: “On Monday night, the Child Jesus welcomed new families and, after the children have undergone the first medical checks, for the next few days we expect the gradual entry into the home of another 4-5 families” , says Roti.