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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...