Within the Lviv city council the issue of transplantation and donation as one of the major problems existing in Ukraine was raised : http://city-adm.lviv.ua/news/science-and-health/medicine/232177-vriatuvaty-odne-zhyttia-tse-vzhe-investytsiia-u-maibutnie-u-lvovi-obhovoriat-odnu-iz-naivazhlyvishykh-problem-pytannia-donorstva-i-transplantatsii

This was during the press conference on the round table on “Building a system of transplantation in Ukraine. Effective functioning of transplant coordinators”, held on May 14 in Ukrainian Catholic University.

The press conference participants:

Volodymyr Zub – Head of health care in LCC

Kulish O.A. – Head of LCCF of “Sister Delila” and NGO “Pulmonary Hypertension – Ukrainian Rare Disease Association” (PH URDA)

Juan Fuertes – Board Member of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association in Europe (PHA Europe), international projects manager of PHA Europe, a member of the European Lung Foundation, Board Member of the European Patients Forum

Pysarenko I. – Transplantation coordinator, anaesthesiologist of Zaporozhye City Hospital

Natalia Van Doeveren – deputy chief doctor of the Lviv regional clinical hospital

Rubai O.A. – Deputy of the Lviv City Council, acting director of the Lviv City Center of Social Services for Families, Children and Youth

Olga Mokrytska – Lviv citizen, who had lung transplantation

Alina Didusenko – orphan child from Kyiv region, who needs heart and lung transplantation

The problem of availability of transplant organs in Ukraine is, literally, a matter of life for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian. In recent years, the NGO “PHURDA” and LCCF of “Sister Delila” established close cooperation with European colleagues and do everything possible to give Ukrainians an opportunity to receive medical care exactly in Ukraine instead of seeking treatment options abroad. “Worth of mentioning that Ukrainian patients have no access to European clinics now”, say the organizers of the round table: NGO “PHURDA” and LCCF of “Sister Delila”.