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Cherkasy is waiting for a hospice
26-08-2014
Olena Berdanova from Cherkasy lost her two-year-old son four months ago. It was not possible to overcome cancer. A hopelessly ill baby was dying in the hospital, VVS.Ukraine reports. "We saw and realized that everything, nothing will come back. But some support, of course, psychological, was not enough," the woman...
The bright memory of the outstanding scientist-pediatrician Olena Lukyanova will always live in the hearts of Ukrainians
22-08-2014
The "Ukrainian League for Promotion of the Development of Palliative and Hospice Care" expresses its deepest condolences to the staff of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, the "Institute of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine", the Association of Pediatricians of...
Vasyl Knyazevich met with Mykhailo Rygan, Director of the Department of Health Care of Kyiv
21-08-2014
On August 21, a working meeting of the Chairman of the Board of the NGO "Ukrainian League for the Promotion of Palliative and Hospice Care" Vasyl Knyazevich with the Director of the Kyiv Health Department Mykhailo Rygan took place. During the meeting, issues of development of palliative care in Kyiv,...
60% of terminally ill patients in the Ternopil Region need narcotic pain relief
21-08-2014
The problem of patients' access to quality pain relief was discussed by Ternopil doctors during a seminar on the circulation of narcotic substances in the medical field. As Larisa Matyuk , the chief specialist-therapist of the health care department of the regional state administration , reported, an incurable disease should...
On the Day of Panteleimon the Healer, famous doctors of Ukraine prayed for their colleagues and initiated the implementation of the tradition of the All-Ukrainian Forgiveness for Doctors
12-08-2014
On the day of commemoration of the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon, a liturgy was held in St. Michael's Golden-Top Monastery, where well-known doctors, scientists, the leadership of the medical field prayed for the spiritual and mentoring support of nurses, doctors and all those who save the sick and infirm....
ANNOUNCEMENT. On the day of commemoration of Saint Panteleimon the Healer, prayers for doctors and soldiers will be held in Christian churches
01-08-2014
On August 9, at 12:00 p.m., a Liturgy dedicated to the memory of the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon* will be held in the St. Michael Golden-Top Monastery (Kyiv, 8, Tryohsvyatitelska St.) with the participation of famous doctors, laureates of the "Cross of Panteleimon the Healer"** , representatives of the...