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Ministry of Health of Ukraine and Children’s Medical Care Foundation started fellowship programs for neonatologists

16 April 2018
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On April 16, 2018 two Ukrainian specialists start a one-month fellowship in a new neonatology center in Krakow, Poland. Eight Ukrainian specialists are looking forward to starting their fellowships in the USA, Great Britain and Poland this year.

On September 25, 2017 the Ministry of Health of Ukraine signed the Memorandum of Understanding and cooperation with the Children’s Medical Care Foundation (CMCF). This was the first step towards cooperation aimed at improving neonatal care in Ukraine through the introduction and use of advanced neonatal practices, the latest techniques and procedures with proven effectiveness.

For over a decade, the CMCF has been funding innovative fellowship and training programs for the Ukrainian doctors, mainly at top medical centers in the United States, Canada, and Poland. Within the framework of the cooperation with the CMCF, every year ten Ukrainian doctors go to foreign countries for new knowledge, practical skills, and professional development. The program will continue to work, and to prevent the outflow of skilled professionals from Ukraine, the so-called ‘brain drain’, lawyers of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine have developed special contracts for program participants.

Oleksandr Linchevskyi, Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine commented: "We realize the need to improve professionalism of the Ukrainian doctors and to give them the opportunity for developing new skills and acquiring practical experience at the best hospitals in the world, and these contracts will help us ensure an effective practice of knowledge exchange in the workplace after doctors return to Ukraine".

At the beginning of 2018, a team of experts, led by Head of the Polish Neonatal Society Professor Maria Katarzyna Borszewska-Kornacka and the CMCF Vice-President Yolanta Martynoff, started a comprehensive analysis of the neonatal care in all regions of Ukraine. First, they visited hospitals and perinatal centers in Odesa, Poltava, Kharkiv , Dnipro, and identified numerous gaps in the work of these healthcare facilities. Based on the study results in each region, the CMCF in cooperation with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine is planning to organize special trainings for the Ukrainian neonatal specialists and pediatricians.

The patient’s life and health directly depends on the level of doctor’s training and desire for professional development. Therefore, this cooperation as a form of investment in doctors’ training is really invaluable.

It includes involvement of the Ukrainian neonatal practitioners, pediatricians, nurses in the international exchange programs and trainings. The Ministry, healthcare institutions and CMCF should work as a team to achieve significant success in the neonatal care development in Ukraine.

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