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16 April 2007 12:52

Representatives of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Visit Zhytomyr Oblast Children’s Hospital

April 16, 2007, representatives of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund visited the Zhytomyr Oblast Children’s Hospital. Members of the delegation were Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 Fund Kateryna Yushchenko, member of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 Fund and Head of the Friends of the Children Charitable Fund Maryna Krysa, Head of the Board of Directors of the Ukraine 3000 Fund Oleksandr Maksymchuk, Director of the Hospital to Hospital program Vira Pavliuk, and Head of the Information and Analysis Department at the Ukrainian Museums Development Center Vladyslav Pioro. The guests were accompanied by wife of the Head of the Zhytomyr Oblast State Administration Yuliya Pavlenko, Deputy Head of the Zhytomyr Oblast State Administration for Humanitarian Issues Ihor Orlov, and Head of the Zhytomyr Oblast Rada Iryna Syniavska.

During their visit to the hospital, the representatives of the Ukraine 3000 Fund took part in the opening ceremony of the International Educational Program on Effective Perinatal Care seminar.

Addressing the audience, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 Fund Kateryna Yushchenko said that this seminar was a significant event in neonatology. “Today doctors’ skills and propagation of the knowledge on innovative medical technologies among medical professional are an extremely acute issue,” she said. “We always welcome any international seminars on the subject and are ready to share our experience with foreign colleagues.” Mrs. Kateryna thanked all participants of the seminar and expressed her hope that “this project will set an example for many other initiatives in this sphere.”

Mrs. Yushchenko outlined major ways of implementation of the Hospital to Hospital program, of which the Zhytomyr Oblast Children’s Hospital is a member. She also mentioned the USAID Mothers’ and Children’s Health project, which allowed to significantly improve mothers’ and children’s health situation.

Mrs. Kateryna handed over to Chief Physician of the Zhytomyr Oblast Children’s Hospital Viktor Marchenko certificates for hospital equipment with total value UAH 58,000 and toys for the little patients. She also gave the hospital an icon from the Yushchenko family.

In their turn, the hospital administration presented to the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund representatives an icon painted on a Korosten china dish.

Before the seminar began, the guests were given a tour of the hospital’s neonatology and oncology centers, art therapy rooms, and spoke to the doctors and patients.

The International Educational Program on Effective Perinatal Care seminar is sponsored by the USAID and the wife of the President of Georgia. Among its participants are Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Health and Social Transition. Nancy Godfrey, Ukraine’s Minister for Health Care Yuriy Haydayev, WHO Representative in Ukraine Chirana Aydyraliyeva, and wife of the Ambassador of the United States to Georgia Mariella Tefft.

The Zhytomyr Oblast Children’s Hospital is member of the Hospital to Hospital Program of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund. Within this program’s framework the hospital has received from the Fund medical equipment totaling around UAH 90,000 (electrocardiographer, defibrillator, pulsoximeter, dressing table, and glukometers).

As part of the cooperation with Johnson & Johnson Corporation, two children’s surgeons from Zhytomyr oblast have got a chance to undergo training at the European Surgical Institute (Hamburg, Germany).

In 2006-2007 art therapy lessons had been held at the Zhytomyr Oblast Children’s Hospital onco-hematology department. The project titled The Wave of Life was carried out by the ART-Selo public organization and sponsored by the Netherlands Embassy.

The hospital’s Board of Trustees is one of the most active. One of its latest actions was a community work day to get the hospital grounds in order, with the participation of Japanese philanthropists, partners of the hospital’s Onco-Hematology Center.