Dobrobut medical network will hold free “Skin Check” and “Melanoma Week at Dobrobut” events for World Melanoma Day, which will include medical consultations with dermatoscopy.
According to the nurse’s press release, the May 11 campaign will include a joint event with the Inspiration Family Foundation and Peremoga, “Check Your Moles. Awareness, not shade, will save from skin cancer,” in which Dobrobut dermatologists will hold free medical consultations with dermatoscopy for everyone by pre-registration. If necessary, which is determined by the doctor, with the support of our partner medical laboratory “DILA” in the medical centers of “Dobrobut” are also available for free tests “excisional biopsy” or “panch-biopsy” for a month from the date of consultation.
Also, during the event, Maria Kukushkina, a leading dermatologist and oncologic surgeon at Dobrobut, will give a lecture on “The Truth and Myths about Melanoma and Skin Cancers.
In addition, from May 22 to 29, as part of the Melanoma Week event at Dobrobut, similar services will be available to everyone at any of the Dobrobut medical centers.
“According to the WHO, about 57 thousand deaths from melanoma are registered in the world every year. Every year around 2.4 thousand new cases are diagnosed in Ukraine – one third of them are discovered during mass check-ups. Melanoma incidence has been increasing rapidly over the last decades, and accounts for up to 10% of all newly detected skin tumors. “Unfortunately, in times of war, many do not have access to diagnosis or neglect screenings, so experts predict an increase in the number of cases detected in the later stages of the disease in the coming years,” Dobrobut emphasized.
“Dobrobut” is one of the largest private medical networks in Ukraine. The network includes 17 medical centers in Kyiv and Kyiv region, emergency service, dentistry and pharmacies. Network medical centers provide services to children and adults in more than 75 medical fields. Annually experts of “Dobrobut” carry out more than 7000 operations. The network has over 2800 employees.
The network collaborates with a number of international charitable organizations such as Direct Relief International, Children of War Foundation, International Medical Corps and University of Miami Global Institute. According to the company, thanks to the work of Direct Relief International and the Dobrobut Foundation, wounded war veterans and people stranded by war are able to receive free care at the Dobrobut Treatment and Diagnostic Center.
According to the company, Dobrobut has become the first private medical network in Ukraine to receive funding from the U.S. federal government: with support from the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the company will build a modern physical rehabilitation center.
