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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...