Tulsa Pediatrician Shares About Time Spent In Ukraine Teaching Medicine

A Tulsa Pediatrician is talking about the time she spent in Ukraine during the late 90s.

Dr. Christine Narrin-Talbot said though she hasn't been back in many years, she did form a bond with people there and they still keep in touch to this day.

She said Ukrainians are kind and genuine people. It's been hard to watch what they are going through.

Dr. Narrin-Talbot spent time in Ukraine on mission trips in the late 90s and early 2000s, teaching medicine and helping open a clinic.

"They were just getting started and learning their way through things, they were used to being told where to work, what to eat, what to do and they were trying to figure it all out," she said.

She said the clinic is still there today, with people she knows still working there. She said it's been heart-wrenching to watch what's happening.

"Some of the children that I knew when I was there are now fighting in the territorial defense, mothers have sent their son, some of my friends over there, doctors.. their sons are in the fight," she said.

She feels helpless, but she said she's sending money and trying to do whatever she can to help them.

"I think money is the biggest thing they need right now, it sounds like not much, but really it makes more sense to get supplies closer to where the need is," she said.

Her friends in Ukraine mean so much to her and she's praying they will be okay.

"I just hope that this turns out for the Ukrainian people, I know they don't want to go back to the way they were before, and it's very heart wrenching right now," she said.

She said she hopes to start a fundraiser in Tulsa soon to raise money to help people in Ukraine.