Retired Florida doctor travels to Ukraine to help infants and newborns impacted by Russia's invasion
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A retired Florida doctor returned to work, traveling thousands of miles to Ukraine to help newborns and infants impacted by the country's ongoing war with Russia.
CHASIV YAR, UKRAINE, JULY 10: Rescue personal and firefighters in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, July 10th, 2022. (Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) LVIV, UKRAINE - 2022/09/17: Ukrainian national flag during the demonstration. (Mykola Tys/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
"I wasn’t ready to just sit around and do nothing for the remaining part of my life," he told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, during a phone interview while he was in Ivano-Frankivsk, a Western Ukrainian city. "I was sitting at home like everybody else, watching [the war] unfold and just wondering what I could do."
Runge then reached out to some contacts in Western Ukraine and left for the war-torn country on July 4. During a 10-day visit, the retired ophthalmologist helped doctors throughout Ukraine.