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‘Our goal is to make the hospital not to awake children’s fear,’ Vadim Boichenko checks the readiness of Children's Diagnostic Center

09 April 2019, 15:54
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Society, Medicine

On the basis of the Mariupol Territorial Medical Association of the health of the child and women it will soon be opened the updated modern Children's Diagnostic Center. Mayor Vadim Boichenko came to check the quality of the work performed and evaluate the filling of the center with modern equipment.

The total amount of funding is UAH 26.6 million. UAH 10.5 million was allocated from the local budget to repair the premises and Metinvest Group - UAH 1.2 million. The city allocated  about  UAH 8 million for the purchase of equipment. The state subvention for these purposes amounted to UAH 6.8 million.

‘We fill medicine with new meaning. Our goal is to make the hospital not to awake children’s fear. To create a playground for games here. We have developed a concept in which specialists can minimize the time of diagnosis. This is made possible by modern equipment. Attracting and adapting young professionals remains one of the associated strategic objectives. Today we have been taking certain steps to raise Mariupol medicine to the regional level,’
Vadim Boichenko noted.

In the future diagnostic center will have bright halls, soft poufs and  playing areas. The classrooms are equipped with modern equipment: a diagnostic ECG load system, a premium radiographic system, a dermatoscope, a pulse oximeter etc.

‘The range of equipment presented within the walls of the center is unique for Ukraine. Medical services will be available to residents - completely free of charge,’ Svetlana Makarova, director of the health department said.

Focused specialists will work in 17 areas In the children's center: a cardiologist, an otolaryngologist, a surgeon, an oncologist, a speech therapist and others. There are comfortable waiting areas, a space for wheelchairs and a wardrobe. There are two isolated boxes with separate entrances for patients with infectious diseases.

According to the deputy mayor Ksenia Sukhova, conditions for the development of medicine are being created in Mariupol. The result is that health facilities are being renovated in the city and modern equipment is being purchased.

‘Only for the primary level of medicine this year about UAH 35 million is provided. This includes prevention, primary diagnosis, early intervention and vaccination. We face an ambitious task. We embarked on this path and confidently go to the goal,’ Ksenia Sukhova summed up.