Kateryna Yushchenko Meets with Federal Minister for Health of the Federative Republic of Germany Ulla Schmidt
14 February 2008 18:33
February 14, 2008, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Kateryna Yushchenko met with Federal Minister for Health of the Federal Republic of Germany Ulla Schmidt. Among other participants of the meeting were representatives of Germany’s Federal Ministry for Health and Ukraine 3000 Fund.
Mrs. Yushchenko introduced Minister Schmidt to medical projects and programs carried out by Ukraine 3000 Fund, describing in more detail the All-Ukrainian Center to Protect Mother's and Children's Health, a.k.a. Children's Hospital of the Future. She said that the Fund was interested in strengthening the cooperation between Ukraine and Germany in training Ukrainian medical workers, both those who would work at the Children's Hospital of the Future and staff members of the Hospital to Hospital program’s member hospitals. Mrs. Kateryna also spoke about the Hospital to Hospital program and partnerships between Ukrainian hospitals and world’s leading children clinics established within its framework.
Besides, Mrs. Yushchenko outlined the major areas of the Joy of the Childhood: Free Movements program, placing emphasis on the access for children with special needs to high-quality education and medicine. She described the Social Partnership for Children’s Health roundtable held February 2 at the International Rehabilitation Clinics in Truskavets. Incidentally, this clinic provides rehabilitation services for many German children with cerebral palsy. Mrs. Kateryna proposed Minister Schmidt to continue the discussion of medical rehabilitation and high-quality education for children with special needs, taking into consideration Ukraine’s and Germany’s experience in solving these questions, and invited representatives of Germany’s Federal Ministry for Health to take part in the Global Educational Summit which will highlight this problem. The Ukraine 3000 Fund is planning to hold this summit in the fall of 2008 at the Artek ICC.
In her turn, Federal Minister for Health recalled her visit to Ukraine in the fall of 2007 and agreements signed during this visit. Minister Schmidt said that the Federal Ministry for Health was interested in further implementation of these agreements and projects. Besides, she proposed to create workgroups to study the issues broached at the meeting, which would include members of the Federal Ministry for Health and Ukraine’s Healthcare Ministry along with medical experts.
In implementing its medical programs the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund often turns to German experience, cooperating with Germany’s patient care institutions and NGOs. In part, Ukrainian doctors underwent training courses at the Hamburg European Surgical Institute as part of the Hospital to Hospital program. Recently representatives of the Children's Hospital of the Future Fund visited leading German children’s hospitals.
This was the last event on the agenda of Mrs. Yushchenko’s and Ukraine 3000 Fund representatives’ working trip to Germany. Its major goal was taking part in the events of the 58th Berlin International Film Festival. Recall that February 11 they took part in the Cinema for Peace reception, and February 12 visited the European Film Market and met with the Cannes Film Festival leaders, director general of the International Federation of Film Producers, and Berlin Film Festival director. Besides, February 12 Mrs. Yushchenko met with wife of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Eva Louise Koehler.
February 12 the Ukrainian delegation headed by Kateryna Yushchenko took part in a reception organized by the Ukrainian Cinema Foundation and Nemiroff Company. The event, dedicated to the presentation of Ukrainian cinema at the 58th Berlin Film Festival, was attended by over 400 people.
February 13 Mrs. Yushchenko and Ukraine 3000 Fund members visited the Dominicus Children’s Hospital.
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