Infection Сontrol in Ukraine

"Sustainability is the main problem of all the projects in the world. You can implement anything, the question is who will support it when the project ends. This problem does not exist at the Chernihiv District Center of Primary Care Services. There is Sylvia Boyarova - infection control coordinator and , of course, the director Oksana Logvinchuk. Therefore, although the USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance project that we implemented together with Project HOPE Ukraine at the institution ended two months ago, the infection control program here continues to gain momentum. In all dispensaries, training takes place, employees are tested according to tests developed by Ms. Sylvia Boyarova herself, new employees are hired only after training in infection control. So, our business was only in pushing, well, a little more in training and material support. All the rest, we are sure, the institution does and will do itself."

"Pleasant and sad. Direct speech (a woman who works with our psychotherapist in a state of acute grief - the loss of her husband): "You are very needed. If the man were alive, he would be very grateful! Unusual, unusual people, I went to each one with fear, I have not met such sensitive and kind people, they told me everything about me, sensitivity! How much this person [cardiologist Alina Topchii] was responsive. Ophthalmologist [Oksana Volodymirivna] – how much I was fascinated, I had tears in my eyes, such a doll. Inna [Inna Kupriy] – psychologist – came to me three days in a row in the corridor, when I sat and did not raise my eyes , I felt bad, only on the third day I looked at her - who is talking to me? I told her that I don't want to live, she talked to me, I didn't want to go home. I am grateful to everyone! Humanity, humanity, humanity, coercion in case histories, how they want to help, such doctors are like the world in a small window, they supported me a lot! I have been to the Crimea and Rome, but I have never met them. What do you have there? Is it such a program, or a new generation, or such an organization, I have never met such people. I was afraid of the gynecologist [Anton Bielinskyi] at night, I did not sleep - I was getting ready, but everything is fine. Is this how you are trained? Maybe you are specially prepared?" Recorded by psychotherapist Yulia Davydenko-Kovalchuk."

"And again not only about infection control. We are already beginning to observe the "remote" consequences of the war. Who remembers cancer screening now? Frankly speaking, even before the war, it was not very good, and now our brigades detect malignant neoplasms almost every week in people who had no idea about the disease. Neglected malignant neoplasms are the same minefield of war that will continue to explode for a long time. Tetyana (name changed) lived in the Dergachy district of the Kharkiv region, where continuous shelling continued even in November-December of last year (nearby is the infamous and almost completely destroyed village of Kazacha Lopan). In September, she left home and found shelter nearby. Of course, she would not have gone to the doctor if she had not met with our mobile team. As a result, on November 4, doctor @Vitaliy Olkhovik detected a neoplasm of the mammary gland on ultrasound, the patient was referred for further examination. The end of the story is in the photo. In October-December, the Dokos Medical mobile team detected 10 cases of malignant neoplasms."