European Association of pulmonary hypertension (PHA Europe) in the summer edition of the journal “Mariposa”  noted LCCF of “Sister Delila”, PHURDA as being those, who directly in Lviv joined the celebration of the World PH Day, highlighting the conducted events:

– World PH Day during social festival “Lutin” along with marathon “Get breathless for PH”

– Round table “Transplantation in Ukraine: discussion of effective model of the system of transplant coordination.” Visited by: Oleg Berezyuk. The speakers were: prist Ihor Boiko; Juan Fuertes Guillén; Boris Todurov; Natalia Van Doeveren; Igor Pisarenko; Irina Senyuta; Victor Serdyuk; Oksana Rubay; Volodymyr Golyk; Representative of LRSA DOH.

– representatives of the local authorities wore T-shirts with symbols of the World PH Day at the session

– the event “Kids for Life.”

We would like to note that an invaluable achievement of such events held across Europe is uniting patients, patient organizations, doctors, social structures, organizations of disabled persons, government officials, ordinary residents in order to talk more about PH issues and overcome informative barrier.

We thanks the European Association of pulmonary hypertension (PHA Europe) for highlighting events associated with the celebration of the World PH Day. Our cooperation and understanding is the driving force in the direction of improving the lives of patients with PH.

Full Mariposa summer edition you can found here: http://www.phaeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/Mariposa-summer-n16-12-08-2016.pdf