Ukraine 3000 Foundation Members Take Part in the Reopening of the Neonatology Ward at the Lviv Oblast State Clinical Hospital
14 June 2008 22:29
June 14, 2008, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko and the Foundation workers took part in the reopening ceremony of the Neonatology Ward at the Lviv Oblast State Clinical Hospital. Among other participants of the event were Minister of Healthcare of Ukraine Vasyl Kniazevych, Archbishop of Lviv Ihor, acting head of the Lviv Oblast State Administration Mykola Kmit, Head of the Lviv Oblast Rada Myroslav Senyk, Chief Physician of the Lviv Oblast State Clinical Hospital Oleksandr Lemishko, representatives of the local authorities, religious organizations, and Ukraine 3000 Foundation.
After the ribbon cutting ceremony, the honorable guests took a tour of the neonatology department. They visited the intensive therapy wards, labs, mother’s rooms, and medical staff rooms.
Mrs. Yushchenko, Minister Kniazevych, Archbishop Ihor, Messrs. Kmit, Senyk, and Lemishko met with the Lviv Oblast State Clinical Hospital Neonatology Ward staff members and representatives of the medical circles at the conference hall. Former patients, workers of the neonatology department, faculty members of the Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, heads of the partner patient care institutions and construction firms carrying out the department’s reconstruction, medical equipment providers, and journalists were present at the meeting.
Mrs. Kateryna Yushchenko greeted the audience on the occasion of the Medical Worker’s Day. She spoke about medical programs, carried out by the Ukraine 3000 Foundation: the Children’s Hospital of the Future, Hospital to Hospital, and Joy of the Childhood: Free Movements.
On behalf of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation, Mrs. Yushchenko gave the Lviv Oblast State Clinical Hospital Neonatology Ward an infant incubator to the cost of UAH 60,000.
The department also received a reanimobile from the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine. A certificate to this power was given to Chief Physician Oleksandr Lemishko by Minister of Healthcare of Ukraine Vasyl Kniazevych.
Lviv Oblast State Clinical Hospital is a third level multiprofile hospital. Its bed capacity is 1,100. 26 clinical, 19 paraclinical, and 15 utility departments are operating at the hospital along with a consultative outpatient clinics. Over 400 doctors are rendering medical aid to more than 30,000 patients per year (including over 16,000 surgeries).
The Premature Newborns’ Pathology Ward is a structural department of the Lviv Oblast State Clinical Hospital. Founded in 1976, it’s the oblast’s only specialized hospital for intensive care and nursing of premature children with weight over 500 g. Its bed capacity is 600. Around 500 children are receiving qualified specialized medical aid every year. Due to implementing modern methods of nursing for premature children, installing state-of-the-art medical equipment in the last decade the mortality level has reduced almost threefold. The survival value among children on ALV has exceeded 70% in the recent years.
In 2005-2007, to increase the ward ’s capacity, capital repairs were carried out at an additional LOCCH pavilion. The costs of the remodeling were UAH 3.74 million. After the remodeling, the pavilion is housing a newborn’s ICU for 12 patients. State-of-the-art equipment was purchased for the ward from the funds of the oblast budget to the total of UAH 4.4 million.
Mrs. Yushchenko and Ukraine 3000 Foundation representatives are staying in Lviv with a working visit, taking part in the Ecumenical Social Week. June 13, Mrs. Kateryna delivered a speech at the Ukrainian Cooporative Movement Academic Conference plenary session. June 14, she met with president of the Semaines Sociales de France Michel Camdessus and visited the Lviv the Holy Spirit Theological Seminary.
Also, members of the Foundation visited the Dzherelo Education and Rehabilitation Center and passed over medicines for disseminated sclerosis prevention to the Association of the Disabled Persons with Disseminated Sclerosis.
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