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Dear colleagues, dear friends!
29-12-2017
Dear colleagues, dear friends! I heartily congratulate everyone on Christmas and New Year! During these festive days, each of us analyzes the past year, makes plans for the next 2018. For someone, the dream is to reach new heights in education, career, business, for someone else, to see another sunrise,...
Vasyl Knyazevich: The plans for 2018 include the development of the "League" and strengthening of its role in society
19-12-2017
The end of 2017 is coming to an end, which was a difficult year for Ukraine. It is possible to evaluate the political processes in the state in different ways, but the main task for everyone who takes care of health care is the daily routine work of caring for...
An Orthodox hospice and certified specialists in palliative care will appear in Odesa region
14-12-2017
At the Holy Intercession Hermitage of the Holy Dormition Odesa Men's Monastery in the village of Marynovka, the construction of the Orthodox hospice "Pokrova" continues at a rapid pace. This was announced by the chairman of the board of the "Ukrainian League for the Development of Palliative and Hospice Care",...
The Ministry of Health does not approve the developed normative documents on palliative care
13-12-2017
For almost 3 years, the draft of the Standards for the provision of palliative and hospice care has been in the Ministry of Health for approval. Similarly, for more than 2 years, the project of the State strategy for the development of palliative and hospice care in Ukraine for the...
Cancer patients in Transcarpathia do not receive the necessary inpatient palliative care (PHOTO)
13-12-2017
Violations of the rights of terminally ill people were recorded by a monitoring group consisting of employees of the Department for the Implementation of the National Preventive Mechanism of the Commissioner's Secretariat during an unannounced visit to the palliative-hospice care department of the Vynohradiv geriatric boarding house. The department has...
Implementation of international treatment protocols is a complex and long-term process
06-12-2017
The Ministry of Health of Ukraine does not approve already developed treatment and care protocols for terminally ill patients. Instead, the use of international protocols, which are recommended to be implemented in work, is complicated by the low level of foreign language proficiency of Ukrainian doctors. This was discussed during...
The government is being asked to force pharmacies to sell narcotic painkillers
04-12-2017
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Ministry of Health must do everything possible to correct the critical situation with palliative patients' access to painkillers. With this letter, the non-governmental organization "Ukrainian League for the Development of Palliative and Hospice Care" ("League") appealed to state authorities. "We ask that...
The date of the 3rd National Congress on palliative care has been determined
01-12-2017
The Third National Congress on Palliative Care will be held on October 25-26, 2018. This decision was made during the meeting of the Presidium of the Board of the NGO "Ukrainian League for the Development of Palliative and Hospice Care". According to the chairman of the board, Vasyl Knyazevich, preparations...
From now on, doctors and social workers in Kyiv will jointly improve care for palliative patients
30-11-2017
Palliative care today should be an integrated component of medical care, social care, psychological and spiritual support. Valentina Ginzburg, director of the Department of Health, is convinced of this. According to her, this is exactly what the patient needs during the pre-terminal and terminal phases of the course of the...
Life at the end: how Vinnytsia hospice works
27-11-2017
The only department for palliative care in the region has been operating on the basis of Vinnytsia Clinical Hospital No. 3 for two years. Today, it can receive 35 patients at the same time. If earlier it was only local residents, now people from the districts are also served. During...
Each year, approximately 500,000 people in Ukraine, 17,000 of whom are children, need access to pain relief
27-11-2017
In different regions of the country, the level of provision of painkillers differs. In most cases, it depends not on the Ministry of Health, but on local level departments and offices and doctors on the ground. According to the reports of regional and district health care managers, in most cases,...
Vasyl Knyazevich: Regions should submit nominations for the training of trainers in palliative and hospice care
06-11-2017
The training of trainers with the help of international specialists is quite realistic and will gradually solve the problem of improving the qualifications of Ukrainian specialists in the regions. This opinion was expressed by Vasyl Knyazevich, the head of the Board of the NGO "Ukrainian League for the Development of...
Volodymyr Martyniuk: Palliative care and palliative care cannot be separated
03-11-2017
Caring for terminally ill children combines both palliative care and palliative care, which are inextricably linked to each other. And the artificial separation of these components between different ministries is unacceptable. This was stated during the meeting of the Board of the NGO "Ukrainian League for the Development of Palliative...
The public and the Ministry of Health will work together to determine the cost of palliative care
01-11-2017
Public organizations have the opportunity to assist the relevant ministry in calculating the cost of providing palliative and hospice care. In addition, it is extremely important to create demand for palliative and hospice care by widely informing society about the problems of terminally ill patients. This will encourage local authorities...
Almost 60% of medical workers do not want to work with terminally ill patients
31-10-2017
Only 20% of doctors believe that they have knowledge of palliative and hospice care, and about 60% do not want to work with palliative patients - these are the results of the research of the Shupyk National Academy of Medical Sciences, which were announced during the meeting of the Board...
Recommendations on priority steps in the field of palliative care have been prepared for the Ministry of Health and the Government
27-10-2017
To introduce palliative and hospice care programs for students of medical schools, to approve the relevant specialization "Palliative and hospice medicine" among the available medical specialties, to place a special emphasis on additional training of primary care doctors - these and other recommendations were determined during the meeting of the...
In Chernivtsi, they are studying the idea of creating medical and social institutions for the care of the terminally ill
27-10-2017
In Chernivtsi region, due to lack of funding, there is no powerful hospice that meets world standards. Therefore, the local authorities decided to take a different path - to study the feasibility of combining medical and social care for palliative patients. After all, the relevance of providing palliative and hospice...
Construction of the first palliative care center in the region has begun in Dnipro
24-10-2017
Construction of the first palliative center for terminally ill patients in the region has begun on the basis of City Hospital No. 15 in Dnipro, which will begin its work in 2019. The institution will not only provide appropriate assistance, but will also become a methodological and educational center for...
Announcement
23-10-2017
How to get rid of "personnel hunger" in palliative care departments? On October 26 (Thursday), 2017 at 10:00 a.m., a meeting of the Board of the NGO "Ukrainian League for the Development of Palliative and Hospice Care" will be held in the premises of the National Medical Library (Lev Tolstoy...
In Zhytomyr, the examination of design and estimate documentation for a new hospice is being completed
23-10-2017
At the end of October, the examination of the design and estimate documentation for the reconstruction of the hospice building in the city of Zhytomyr at 3, Energeticnyk Lane will be completed. Viktor Khomenko, a representative of the health care department of the Zhytomyr City Council, said this. "Last year,...
Kharkiv children with incurable diseases will be provided with high-quality and qualified assistance
20-10-2017
A hospice for children with incurable diseases in the terminal stage was opened in Kharkiv on the basis of the city children's hospital No. 5. According to the Kharkiv City Council, the institution is designed for the permanent stay of 20 children with their parents. The department is fully equipped...
Dnipro can become a flagship in providing Ukrainians with palliative care
17-10-2017
The creation of a modern, powerful regional center for palliative and hospice care, the constant attention of local authorities to solving the problems of palliative patients, and active work on training medical and social workers in the care of palliative patients indicate that Dnipro is gradually becoming a flagship in...
I congratulate the participants of the conference "Practice of palliative care in the Eurasian region: exchange of experience"
16-10-2017
On behalf of the Presidium of the Board of NGO "Ukrainian League of Palliative and Hospice Assistance" I congratulate the participants of the conference "Practice of Palliative Care in the Eurasian Region: Exchange of Experiences." Such measures, in each region of Ukraine, are of great importance for the development of...
October 14 is World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
14-10-2017
Today, on the World Day of Hospice and Palliative Care, allow me to express the words of deep respect and gratitude to all those involved in one way or another in the work with palliative patients. I strongly believe that caring for a dying person is not a job, but...
Personnel problems: to work in palliative care units, it is necessary to create motivation
13-10-2017
The lack of personnel in palliative care departments is critical, but it can be overcome or at least reduced. This is the opinion of the participants of the press conference held as part of the World Day of Hospice and Palliative Care. Anatoliy Tsarenko, deputy head of the "Ukrainian League...
We cordially invite you to participate in the modular program on bioethics of the Ukrainian Catholic University
12-10-2017
Ukraine is making a lot of efforts to overcome the crisis in the field of medicine. An important step on this path is the humanization of medicine, which should be implemented both in the personal-professional and socio-political dimensions, with the aim of establishing key moral values. The modular program on...
Analgesia of palliative patients: the right is there, availability is not
12-10-2017
The problem of providing terminally ill patients with narcotic painkillers, which ease the suffering at the final stages of life of terminally ill patients, remains the most acute today. This was discussed during the press conference held as part of the World Day of Hospice and Palliative Care. As Volodymyr...
Problem #1: Pain relief remains unavailable
11-10-2017
As part of the World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, which this year is celebrated on October 14, a press conference and performance "Alice's Journey to Switzerland" was held at the National Academic Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko. During the press conference, the participants talked about the level of...
PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT Palliative care: when drugs are good
09-10-2017
October 10 (Tuesday) 2017 at 18.00 as part of the celebration of the World Day of Hospice and Palliative Care in the hall of the National Academic Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko (small stage) will host a press conference and the performance "Alice's Journey to Switzerland", dedicated to the...
Kyiv city and Kyiv regional organizations of the NGO "Ukrainian League for the Development of Palliative and Hospice Care" are initiating the month of development of palliative and hospice care from October 10
05-10-2017
Every year on the second Saturday of October, the world celebrates the World Day of Hospice and Palliative Care. World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is organized by the World Palliative Care Alliance, which includes national and regional organizations that support the development of hospice and palliative care around the...
The main tasks of the "League" are to force the state to provide pain relief and to train "palliative care personnel"
03-10-2017
The problems of analgesia for the terminally ill and the shortage of personnel for palliative departments are the most critical issues today for the relevant Ministry of Health and the Government. On the eve of the formation of the Budget of Ukraine, the public should update these problems and maximally...
Knyazevich on medical reform and palliative care in Ukraine. prm.global. CUBE
16-06-2017
Vasyl Knyazevich, head of the board of the All-Ukrainian public organization "Ukrainian league for the development of palliative and hospice care", as a guest of Svetlana Shevchuk on the air of prm.global KUB. The level of palliative medicine in Ukraine, existing problems in the health care sector and ways to...
Dear colleagues!
16-04-2017
We sincerely congratulate you on the Great Day of the Bright Resurrection of Christ! In the life of every Christian, Easter is a particularly revered and majestic holiday. And not only because it comes with the confirmation of a real, blooming and warm spring, but also because it is a...
Another positive mark in the development of palliative care in Ukraine
13-04-2017
A palliative care department has been opened on the basis of the Second City Hospital in Kremenchuk. The department is designed for 25 beds. It is positive that the opening was attended by Mayor Vitaly Maletskyi and his deputies, Deputy Head of the Poltava Regional State Administration Oleh Pruglo, Director...
The League provided charitable aid
12-04-2017
The NGO "Ukrainian League for the Development of Palliative and Hospice Care" provided charitable assistance to the National Military Medical Clinical Center "Main Military Clinical Hospital" and the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Clinical Infectious Disease Hospital, the regional HIV/AIDS center.
Vasyl Knyazevich discussed the coordination of the implementation of the palliative care system in Ukraine
29-03-2017
At a meeting with the Deputy Minister of Health Oksana Sivak, the Chairman of the Board of the League, Vasyl Knyazevich, discussed the coordination of the implementation of the palliative care system in Ukraine, the restoration of the work of the interdepartmental working group, interaction with the Ministry of Social...
A two-day study visit was held in Kropyvnytskyi to study the experience of organizing medical services and palliative care
22-02-2017
Last week, a two-day study visit was held in Kropyvnytskyi to study the experience of organizing the provision of medical services and palliative care for a delegation of workers in the field of health care, as part of the national program of exchange visits of the Association of Cities of...