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10 May 2007 14:16

Ukraine 3000 Fund Visits Sumy Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital

May 10, 2007, representatives of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund, leaded by Head of the Fund’s Supervisory Board Kateryna Yushchenko, visited the Sumy Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital. Among other participants of the event were Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Health Protection Tetiana Bakhteyeva, UNICEF Representative in Ukraine Jeremy Hartley, Director of the Triumph of Heart charitable organization Stephan-Arpad Madjar, and Head of the Sumy Oblast State Administration Pavel Kachur and other representatives of the Sumy Oblast State Administration

At the hospital, Mrs. Yushchenko took part in the medical workers’ conference dedicated to the International Nurse’s Day. Mrs. Kateryna offered those present her greetings with their professional holiday. “Thank you for the great job you are doing to restore people’s health,” she said. Mrs. Kateryna expressed her hope that the state would duly appreciate the nurses’ work and give more attention to the paramedics’ needs.

Mrs. Yushchenko also told the audience about the Ukraine 3000 Fund’s medical programs. In part, she spoke in more detail about the Hospital to Hospital program, in which the Sumy Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital actively participates, and the Joy of the Childhood: Free Movements and Children’s Hospital of the Future projects.

In her turn, Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Health Protection Tetiana Bakhteyeva congratulated the nurses with the International Nurse’s Day and described the history of this holiday. Ms. Bakhteyeva spoke in more detail about Verkhovna Rada, President, and Cabinet of Ministers’s lawmaking initiatives aimed at raising the status of the medical workers in general and nurses in part, increasing the wages and improving working conditions. Ms. Bakhteyeva also touched on the rural medicine issue and the need to pass the Law on Medical Insurance and standard acts which would allow increasing medical workers’ salaries as early as by the end of the year.

Head Physician with the Sumy Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital Arkadiy Lushpa thanked the guests for their visit. He expressed his special thanks to the Ukraine 3000 Fund for its support given to the hospital within the framework of the Hospital to Hospital program.

On behalf of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund, Kateryna Yushchenko handed over to Dr. Lushpa a certificate for medical equipment. The Sumy Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital has received a portable electric breast pump (2 items), digital children’s scales (2 items), spray infusion pump (2 items), Reusable, manual resuscitator for infants (2 items), and a first-aid kit with total value of around UAH 71,000. Also Mrs. Yushchenko presented the Sumy Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital with an icon of Our Lady from the Yushchenko family.

The hospital’s staff presented Mrs. Yushchenko with a vase decorated with a picture of the hospital.

Mrs. Yushchenko was given a tour of the hospital, spoke to its management, little patients, and their parents. She also held a brief meeting with young doctors among whom were those having undergone training at the European Surgical Institute in Hamburg.

The guests also visited the newborns’ unit. Together with Director of the Triumph of Heart charitable organization Stephan-Arpad Madjar, Mrs. Yushchenko gave the women staying at the unit special newborns kits with all essentials for a child up to 12 months old.

The Sumy Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital is member of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund’s Hospital to Hospital Program. The hospital was founded in 1988 and awarded with highest qualify in March 2003. In the last few years, the hospital has been taking top places in the ratings. In 2001, the Sumy Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital won the first place among Ukraine’s oblast children’s hospitals.

The hospital has 12 specialized units with total bed capacity of 410 and the oblast children’s consultative clinics receiving 240 patients per one shift. Around 110 doctors and 310 paramedics work at the hospital.

Within the Hospital to Hospital Program framework, the Sumy Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital has received a set of cardiologic equipment (the Healthy Heart of the Child charitable action by the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund and McDonalds Ukraine Ltd), and glukometers (blood sugar control systems). Besides, two children’s surgeons working at the hospital were given a chance to undergo training at the European Surgical Institute in Hamburg. Besides, the Sumy Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital has won the first grant competition for treatment and rehabilitation institutions for children with cerebral palsy within the Joy of the Childhood: Free Movements program. The hospital had been granted UAH 15,000, with which it purchased equipment necessary for the rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy.

By a request from the Ukraine 3000 Fund, the Sumy Oblast Children’s Clinical Hospital has been receiving aid from the Triumph of Heart charitable organization for the last four years. Due to this aid, the recently confined women receive a newborn’s kit totaling almost €200. Around 300 women receive these kits every year. Besides, the Triumph of Heart organization initiated creating the first psycho-physiological support room at the hospital.

Head of the Fund’s Supervisory Board Kateryna Yushchenko and representatives of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund are on a one-day working trip to Sumy. Earlier they have visited the Sumy Suprun Boarding School for Orphaned Children and Children, Deprived of Parents’ Care, with visits to the Sumy National Agricultural University and Sumy Oblast Local History Museum also being on the schedule.