Head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Yulia Svetlichnaya gave an order to develop a new regional oncological center project and to determine the place for its construction.

"We will find financing. The decentralization reform has strengthened the local budgets, we will also rely on the support of the state budget. We will act decisively and quickly. We will not stretch, "Svetlichnaya stressed..

On February 9, she visited the KNI "Regional Center of Oncology" in Pomerenki, where the hospital works for almost 500 beds, and on dispensary registration there are more than 77,000 patients with oncological pathology.

"The situation in the hospital is very complicated," noted Yulia Svetlichnaya. - Conditions for both patients and doctors are extremely unsatisfactory. For decades medical institutions existed without support and attention. Repair and new medical equipment are necessary here ».

The head of HOGA noted that both issues - repairs and upgrades of equipment - will be decided this year. Part of the equipment for the oncological center the head of the region handed over immediately. This apparatus of artificial ventilation, a surgical lamp and several analyzers. Due to the regional program "Health Slobozhanshchina" last year the center also received a new mammogram, anesthesia and respiratory apparatus and a washing and disinfection machine for endoscopes.

"In the near future we will purchase a modern X-ray machine, we will also pledge financing for the purchase of other equipment," said Yulia Svetlichnaya. - I know that there are problems with the roof, with the separation of radiation therapy. We will carry out routine repairs. But cardinally this will not solve the problem. The buildings of the hospital are too outdated, some were built 80 years ago, the engineering systems will not withstand the load. And this must be changed drastically. That is why we decided to build a new regional cancer complex ".

According to the head of the region, the new oncocenter should be located next to the multidisciplinary medical institutions, which will facilitate the treatment of patients with concomitant pathologies (cardiological, gastroenterological, endocrinological and.

"This is important, and this is world practice," the head of the Kharkov Regional State Administration. - I gave the commission to develop the appropriate project in the shortest possible time and determine the place ".