74.1% of Ukrainians believe that men between the ages of 16 and 25 should be allowed to study abroad without hindrance, according to a survey conducted by the Ilk Kucheriv Foundation for Democratic Initiatives and the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.
In particular, when asked whether respondents agree or disagree with the statement that young men aged 16 to 25 should be freely released abroad to study in foreign secondary, vocational and higher educational institutions, 52.2% said they fully agree, 21.9% – mostly agree, 7.7% – mostly disagree, 10.7% – do not agree at all, and 7.5% found it difficult to answer.
The all-Ukrainian poll was conducted in the period from July 3 to July 17, 2023. A total of 2011 respondents aged 18 and older were interviewed by face-to-face method in the Ukrainian-controlled territories of Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattya, Zaporizhzhya, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovograd, Lviv, Mykolayiv, Odessa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi regions and in Kyiv. The statistical error of the sample does not exceed 2.8%.
The total economic damage from wildfires in Hawaii may amount from $8 billion to $10 billion, Market Watch reports with reference to preliminary estimates of AccuWeather.
These estimates include both insured and uninsured losses, the company notes.
The fires not only directly affect the region’s residents, their real estate and businesses, but will also have a negative impact on tourism in the future, AccuWeather said in its report.
The company estimates $3 billion to $5 billion in damage from the July floods in the northeastern United States.
Key insurers in Hawaii include State Farm Insurance, Berkshire Hathaway, Tokio Marine, USAA and Allstate Corp. notes Jefferies.
According to the latest figures, 55 people have died as a result of the wildfires in Hawaii.
The Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy named after V.P.Filatov of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine (Odessa) for six months of 2023 conducted more than 90 thousand consultations in the consultative polyclinic, the number of patients treated in the hospital is approaching to the indicators of pre-war and pre-Cold War times and amounts to 6666 patients.
Sergey Katsan, deputy director of the Institute for scientific and medical work, told the Interfax-Ukraine news agency that among the recent trends, in particular, are the consequences of an increase in the number of patients who come to the clinic “with far advanced stages of eye diseases, with complications, which further leads to longer treatment periods, inability to overcome the disease with therapeutic methods, the emergence of the need for surgical treatment.”
“First of all it concerns patients with inflammatory diseases of the organ of vision, ophthalmo-oncology. The number of patients of the department of microsurgical treatment of pediatric eye diseases has also increased,” he said.
At the same time, Katsan noted that “with the beginning of hostilities significantly increased the number of patients with traumatic lesions, both as a result of enemy actions, and with domestic injuries (especially, this applies to children)”.
In addition, according to Katsan, the number of cataract and glaucoma patients has increased compared to pre-war and pre-Cold War figures.
The Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy named after V.P. Filatov of the National Academy of Sciences of Russia. V.P. Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of NAMNU was founded in 1936. It is a leading scientific and medical institution and a national center of scientific research in the field of ophthalmology. On the basis of the Institute there are four national centers, which cover the most common ophthalmic pathologies: Ukrainian Ophthalmotraumatology Center, Center of Pediatric Ophthalmopathology, Center of Ophthalmic Oncology, Eye Burn Center.
The Institute’s clinic is an ophthalmology center where all types of diagnostics and treatment of eye diseases with the use of innovative technologies are carried out.
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Leleka Medical Center (Kyiv) has maintained its patient flow by reformatting its reproductive technology clinic and maternity hospital into a multidisciplinary medical center.
“Compared to the pre-war situation, the number of patients in absolute numbers has remained the same thanks to the reformatting of Leleka into a multidisciplinary medical center,” Vadym Zukin, the medical center’s chief operating officer, told Interfax-Ukraine.
At the same time, he noted that the number of patients in obstetrics fluctuates in proportion to the number of births in Kyiv and the region.
Leleka Multifunctional Medical Center is one of the leading Ukrainian clinics in obstetrics, gynecology, and general surgery. The medical center practices medical protocols approved in Ukraine, the United States and Western Europe. The Leleka Center for Modern Surgery provides surgical gynecology, mammology, vascular surgery (phlebology), proctology and urology, endocrine surgery, plastic, abdominal, bariatric, outpatient surgery, and endoscopy.
As reported, in 2019, Leleka was the first in Ukraine to receive JCI accreditation, one of the world’s most prestigious quality standards for medical institutions. The standard is based on the American system of medical accreditation of medical institutions based on the management of patient outcomes.
The JCI International Division accredits hospitals in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South America, and now in Ukraine. JCI annually updates its accreditation standards to expand its patient safety goals.
For the fourth week in a row, the number of entry border crossings into Ukraine exceeds the number of exit border crossings: this week the difference between them amounted to 26 thousand, compared to 36 thousand a week ago and 21 thousand two weeks ago.
According to the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, published on Facebook, the number of exit crossings increased from 360 thousand last week to 362 thousand this week, while the number of entry crossings decreased from 396 thousand to 388 thousand.
The number of vehicles crossing the western border of Ukraine, according to the agency, in the 32nd week of the year also decreased – from 143 thousand to 141 thousand, as well as the number of processed vehicles with humanitarian goods – from 839 to 780.
The Polish Border Guard Service also recorded a slight decrease in the net inflow to Ukraine over the past seven days – to 18.8 thousand from 28.5 thousand last week and 16.5 thousand two weeks earlier.
According to the Polish Ministry, the number of those who entered Poland from Ukraine during the week decreased from 231.8 thousand to 230.2 thousand, while those traveling in the opposite direction decreased from 260.3 thousand to 249.0 thousand.
In general, since the beginning of the war, by August 11, 2023, 14.51 million people arrived in Poland from Ukraine, while 12.75 million people traveled in the opposite direction.
As reported, since May 10, 2022, the outflow of refugees from Ukraine was replaced by an inflow, which lasted until September 23 and amounted to 409 thousand people.
However, since the end of September, possibly under the influence of news about mobilization in Russia and “pseudo-referendums” in the occupied territories, and then massive shelling of energy infrastructure, an excess of the number of those leaving over those entering was recorded. It temporarily stopped in the second half of December – early January for the period of holidays, but then resumed again and in total since the end of September by the anniversary of the full-scale war reached 223 thousand people.
From that time until today, thanks to the statistics of the last four weeks, the number of border crossings to enter Ukraine has exceeded the number of crossings to leave Ukraine by 86 thousand.
As Deputy Minister of Economy Serhiy Sobolev noted in early March, the return of every 100 thousand Ukrainians home gives a 0.5% increase in GDP.
According to the UNHCR, the number of Ukrainian refugees in Europe as of August 8 was estimated at 5.882 million, and in the whole world – at 6.240 million, which is 9 thousand more than a week ago.
In Ukraine itself, according to the UN data as of the end of May, there were 5.088m internally displaced persons.
