In the Zhytomyr region, about 300 patients and workers of the supporting hospital of the Novoguvinsky Office held a rally against the reorganization of the neurological department. During the rally, the participants threw the acting general director of the hospital Sergey Demus into the trash can, who signed the corresponding order, reported by Zhitomir Suppilne.
The protesters, among whom were also military personnel, said if the authorities did not hear them, they will block the tracks and go to protests every day.
One rally participant Nadezhda Vitkovskaya said that she receives medical care in the neurological department of the hospital within 30 years. According to her, to close the department incorrectly and unfair.
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As the medical director of the hospital Vladimir Kovalchuk, who also protested, told reporters, if the neurological department is reproduced or closed, then he leaves. He specified that. the general director of the hospital exerts pressure on him.
" There were orders about dismissal, about the reprimands that I won in court. And now they constantly put pressure on me so that I will leave my office. One of the methods is precisely the closure of the neurological department, ”said Vladimir Kovalchuk.
After the start of the protest, the participants went to the CEO’s office, but he was not there. Subsequently, he went outside and tried to go to the car. The protesters blocked his path, demanding to answer the question about the reorganization of the neurological department. Without receiving specific answers, Sergey Demus, the protesters threw into the garbage tank.
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After that, the general director told the audience that the neurological and therapeutic departments were reorganized to open a new palliative assistance department. The general director assured that all doctors proposed work in the new department.
" All patients will be able to treat any pathology, ”said and. General Director of the KNP "
Despite the assurances, the protesters said that they would not leave the hospital, until the order was canceled on the reorganization of the neurological department.
Later, as it became known " info " She said that the order was canceled.
As part of the reform of medicine, the majority of the medical institutions of Ukraine united into a single medical space and switched to financing under the program of medical guarantees. True, in practice it became both good and bad news at the same time. About this in an interview with “Seven years of the NSZU: why Ukrainians still pay for“ free of charge ”, noted the ex-Zamglavs of the Ministry of Health and the co-founder of the Ukrainian Center for Health (UHC) Pavel Kovtonyuk, who was talked to the editor of the Socium department Alla Kotlyar.