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07 February 2008 17:35

Architecture and Town Planning Council at the Central Management of Town Planning, Architecture, and City Design of the Kyiv City State Administration Approves Draft Design of the Children’s Hospital

February 6, 2008, the Architecture and Town Planning Council at the Central Management of Town Planning, Architecture, and City Design of the Kyiv City State Administration approved and recommended for further elaboration, considering remarks, the draft design of the All-Ukrainian Center to Protect Mothers’ and Children’s Health.

The meeting, presided over by Head of the Architecture and Town Planning Council at the Central Management of Town Planning, Architecture, and City Design of the Kyiv City State Administration Vasyl Prysiazhniuk, was attended by Deputy Head of the State Administrative Department Oleksiy Panko, Head of the SAD Capital Development Administration Vitaly Halunko, Chief Consultant of the SAD Capital Development Administration Pavlo Havva, representative of the Center’s General Designer, Building Design Partnership Ltd. (Great Britain)Antoine Buisseret, Director of the Budova-Tsentr 1 Ltd. Volodymyr Pidhirniak, representatives of the 21st Century investment company, supervising the project, Andriy Borodynsky and Dmytro Retynsky, along with Head of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Board of Directors Oleksandr Maksymchuk, Head of the Children’s Hospital of the Future Charitable Fund Board of Directors Vira Pavliuk, Financial Director of the Children’s Hospital of the Future Charitable Fund Rostyslav Zamlynsky, Executive Director of the Children’s Hospital of the Future Charitable Fund Olena Kovalenko, and Press Secretary of the Children’s Hospital of the Future Charitable Fund Maryna Antonova.

The draft design of the All-Ukrainian Center to Protect Mothers’ and Children’s Health on the grounds of the Feofaniya Clinical Hospital (21 vul. Zabolotnoho Akademika, Holosiyiv district, Kyiv) was the third on the agenda.

In his report Mr. Pidhirniak, Director of the Budova-Tsentr 1 Ltd., chosen by Designer General as subcontractor from the Ukrainian party, presented the overall concept of the design, emphasizing the new approach to the organization of a patient care institution. According to the design, the hospital unit, a.k.a. medical platform, and ward units will be combined through an atrium, including all major public access areas and public traffic movement. Mr. Pidhirniak also said that natural landscape would be used without interfering into it, and drew the meeting members’ attention to the new construction materials to be used in the design.

Member of the Architecture and Town Planning Council, reviewer Oleh Leleka opined that this country doesn’t give enough attention to modern patient care institutions design, meaning not only architectural designs but also implementing high-end technologies in the process of treatment. In his words, this project opens new possibilities for treatment institutions design. A single multifunctional building combining the diagnosing, treatment, and utility areas, together with the landscape, forms a natural environment and presents possibilities for more efficient treatment. However, certain challenges arise, namely, controversies between the regulations and the design. In Mr. Leleka’s words, it will be necessary to work with certain authorities to come to an agreement even before the draft design of the All-Ukrainian Center to Protect Mothers’ and Children’s Health is submitted for the General State Expert Examination.

After that, a number of experts’ observations were suggested regarding the need to increase packing stations, the staff members list, fire safety, etc. In part, the Kyiv State Expert Examination Head Anatol Karminsky said that the package of documents submitted to the Council was incomplete, lacking, in part, the medical program which would require special attention in the next future.

In general, in spite of certain reservations, the design received positive feedback from the Architecture and Town Planning Council members.

Summarizing the discussion, Mr. Prysiazhniuk proposed to approve the draft design of the All-Ukrainian Center to Protect Mothers’ and Children’s Health and recommended it for further elaboration, considering the remarks.

Commenting on this decision, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Kateryna Yushchenko said that this event symbolized successful completion of an important stage of the creation of the Children’s Hospital of the Future. “We hope that we’ll soon go through the next stages and start the construction, looked forward to by the whole country,” she said.

Recall that in 2006 the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund, striving to improve the situation around mothers’ and children’s health protection in Ukraine, initiated the construction of the All-Ukrainian Center to Protect Mothers’ and Children’s Health, a.k.a. Children’s Hospital of the Future. This is the biggest charitable project in Ukraine’s history. At present, over UAH 260,000,000 have been raised in charitable contributions and obligations for the construction.