Seminar “Healthcare organization and management” for chairs’ representatives.

 The Project organized and held a two-day seminar “Healthcare organization and management” for chairs’ representatives on 12-13 October 2009 in Bucha town of Kyiv oblast. The seminar was attended by representatives of higher medical educational establishments of graduate and postgraduate education: O. Bohomolets Kyiv national medical university, P.L. Shupik national medical academy of postgraduate education, Kharkiv medical academy of postgraduate education, Poltava Ukrainian medical dentist academy, Danylo Halytsky Lviv national medical university, Crimea state medical university, Gorbachevsky Ternopil medical university, Bukovina state medical university, Odessa state medical university, Zaporizhzhya medical academy of postgraduate education, Ivano-Frankivsk national medical university, Lugansk state medical university, Uzhgorod state medical university, Pyrogov Vinnytsya national medical university, Gorky Donetsk state medical university, Ukrainian military medical academy.

Ms. Oxana Abovskaya, the Project team leader, analyzed the current situation in Ukrainian healthcare and stated basic directions of the Project activities. The audience was presented with vision of the Project experts on further healthcare system development.
 
According to Ms. Abovskaya, only local authorities and self-government bodies can make all key decisions necessary to initiate healthcare reforming process, considering the current Ukrainian legislation. Local self-government bodies own healthcare facilities. Hence, they are responsible for their operations and provision with healthcare services for those in need and when the need arises. Local public administrations are budget assets managers (according to the Budget Code of Ukraine) and hence they bear responsibility for aimed allocation of those assets. But in this case finances must be spent on population of relevant territories and not beds or hospitals.