The Ministry of Health continues to impede the entry of private clinics into the medical guarantees program and creates discriminatory conditions for their participation in the single medical space.
This opinion was expressed by members of the Association of Private Medical Institutions (APMI) at a press conference organized jointly with Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.
“We have tried many times to reach a dialogue with the relevant ministry, but, unfortunately, we have been ignored in all formats – official, unofficial, absolutely in all. Therefore, we were forced to send an open letter. It is unfortunate that the Ministry of Health demonstrates its intention to continue ignoring us and our problems. This is evidenced, in particular, by the regulatory documents approved after our appeal,” said Olena Yeshchenko, director of Smart Medical Septeg, chairman of the APMZ.
She explained that the regulations put private clinics in a non-competitive position with state or municipal healthcare facilities. “They create artificial obstacles aimed at removing large private providers, healthcare providers from the system, which ultimately leads to unnecessary spending of public funds and their misuse,” she said.
According to Ms. Yeshchenko, these are the requirements of the Primary Healthcare Program 2025, which relate, in particular, to the requirements for laboratory tests, as well as the introduction of reduction coefficients for private clinics when paying for medical services provided under the Primary Healthcare Program, as well as requirements that make it impossible to include private institutions in a capable network, etc.
She emphasized that the issue of booking medical staff is becoming especially relevant for private clinics. “We are talking about a number of very serious discriminatory issues, for example, when it comes to booking medical staff. Even after our appeal, the government approved a 100% quota for booking medical staff for state and municipal institutions, but this is not provided for private institutions, although many private clinics continue to operate and provide medical care to the military and the wounded at their own expense,” she said.
“Thus, in our opinion, a rather corrupt component is being implemented, which contributes to the outflow of medical workers from private medicine to state and municipal institutions,” emphasized Yeshchenko.
According to her, there is currently a problem of communication on this issue between the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Health. “In fact, the two ministries are trying to play football with each other,” she said.
For her part, Oleksandra Mashkevych, medical director of Dobrobut Medical Network, noted that Dobrobut, which is included in the list of critical infrastructure facilities, is also deprived of the possibility of booking.
“Dobrobut Medical Network is a critical infrastructure facility. As far as I know, there are only 11 healthcare facilities classified as critical infrastructure facilities. And I have a question: why we are not included in the resolution on booking 100% of doctors. We will honestly say that our healthcare workers are likely to move to state-owned and municipal facilities, because there is an opportunity to book there,” she said.
As reported, at the end of December last year, the APMH in an open letter to government agencies stated that the Ministry of Health violates the rights of citizens and prevents private institutions from entering the single medical space and the PMG.
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Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Dobrobut Medical Network has invested UAH 400 million in a multidisciplinary clinic on Bazhana Avenue in Kyiv.
According to a press release from the medical chain, citing Serhiy Orl, COO of Dobrobut Multidisciplinary Hospital on Bazhana Avenue, Raiffeisen Bank, FUIB and Credit Agricole Bank have become financial partners in the development of the clinic’s ophthalmology department.
“We plan to further develop ophthalmic surgery, providing the highest level of services to our patients,” said Orel.
As reported earlier, Dobrobut medical chain opened an ophthalmology clinic at the end of December on the basis of a multidisciplinary hospital on Bazhana Avenue in Kyiv.
“Dobrobut is one of Ukraine’s largest private healthcare networks. The company’s portfolio includes 17 medical centers in Kyiv and Kyiv region, an emergency service, dentistry and pharmacies. The medical centers of the network provide services for children and adults in more than 75 medical areas. Every year, Dobrobut specialists perform more than 7 thousand surgeries. The network employs more than 2.8 thousand people.
Thanks to cooperation with international charitable organizations such as Direct Relief International, Children of War Foundation, International Medical Corps and University of Miami Global Institute, as well as the work of the Dobrobut Foundation charitable foundation, the clinics of the network continued to operate even during the hostilities and provided a significant part of medical services free of charge. Since the first days of the war, the Dobrobut Medical and Diagnostic Center in Kyiv has been providing emergency medical care to Ukraine’s defenders and wounded civilians free of charge 24/7.
“In August 2022, we entered the premises of the first building of our all-Ukrainian clinic for the first time. In October, renovation work began here and in April, after a record 5 months, we opened the doors of the first building of the Superhumans Center,” the statement reads.
“Superhumans is not just a clinic, not just a network of clinics, it’s a philosophy and rightly so. The rebuilding of a country begins with the rebuilding of each individual, military or civilian. Child or adult. And when we see the creation of such a center, we see the creation of a place of strength,” said First Lady Elena Zelenskaya, the center’s ambassador, at the opening.
“For me, it’s a personal obligation, my way of giving thanks to those we win. The military and civilians who paid for our country’s freedom with their own health will receive at Superhumans the most advanced technology, the best medical expertise from around the world, an individualized itinerary – everything they need to get back to active life,” said Superhumans co-founder Andrew Stavnitzer.
“We are honored to be part of this extraordinary effort to help world-class Ukrainians who have been terribly injured in this war – they are truly ‘Superhumans.’ Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is a war against civilians.
Many men, women, and children will lose life or limb, even long after the war is over, due to the sheer number of mines in large parts of Ukraine. This center is a step toward giving Ukrainians a chance to rebuild their lives and their country,” said Howard G. Buffett, chairman and CEO of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.
The Superhumans Center is a comprehensive medical facility that will prosthetically treat and rehabilitate patients, primarily those who have been injured as a result of Russian aggression.
The first phase of the center, a prosthetic workshop and part of the rehabilitation center, were opened April 14. According to Vladimir Golovatsky, deputy medical center, more than sixty medical specialists will work in the center. Annually about 3 thousand patients will be treated there.
Investment in the launch of the Superhumans rehabilitation medical center in Lviv is estimated at $54 million, Superhumans CEO Olga Rudneva said earlier.
The first stage of the project includes repairs of premises, purchase of equipment, a year of medical team salaries and purchase of materials for prosthetics.
The second and third phases include the launch of all the buildings of the hospital, the start of the educational center on the basis of Superhumans, and expansion to other regions of Ukraine, in particular, to Kharkiv.
The project has already been supported by the Howard Buffett Foundation, the Richard Branson Virgin Unite Foundation, Cargill, Payoneer, Freedom Finance, Loro Piano, Mastercard, SD Capital and others.
A memorandum of cooperation was signed between Superhumans and the Ministry of Health. Health Minister Viktor Lyashko noted that the joint goal is to provide Ukrainians who suffered war injuries with the world’s best expertise.
Ottobock, a German manufacturer of technologies for manufacturing various types of prostheses, orthoses and exoskeletons, is working with the Superhumans project to launch a laboratory for the production of prostheses. Ossur, a leading manufacturer of bionic and other prostheses from Iceland, is also advising the team on starting its own production of prostheses.
The project is being created at the initiative of Ukrainian businessman Andrei Stavnitser. Another of its founders is Philip Grushko.
ADONIS medical group of companies will relocate a family-type maternity hospital located in the left-bank part of Kyiv due to non-renewal of the lease of the premises.
“The circumstances under which we are forced to relocate the maternity hospital do not depend on us. The owner of the building did not renew the lease of the premises, and therefore we are forced to leave it before the end of the week,” the medical group said.
CIM ADONIS clarifies that the full complement of medical teams work in the maternity hospital in Sofiyivska Borshchagovka.
“All patients who have entered into obstetric agreements with Adonis Center LLC in connection with these circumstances will receive obstetric services at the clinic in Sofiyivska Borshchagovka. ADONIS ambulance transportation is free and round-the-clock (including during curfew hours)”, – specified by the company.
The clinic reported that over the years of operation of the maternity hospital on the left bank, more than 800 babies were born.
As reported, ADONIS International Group of Companies opened a family-type maternity hospital on Sofiyivska Borshchagovka.
ADONIS is a network of private medical centers for adults and children founded over 20 years ago. It includes 12 branches in Kyiv and the region, including two own maternity hospitals and a stem cell laboratory.
In the branches of the clinic, doctors receive patients in 66 medical areas.
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The medical group Adonis has opened a multidisciplinary clinic in Kyiv with a surgical hospital for 24 single wards.
The company told the Interfax-Ukraine agency, in particular, the clinic will provide services of innovative reconstructive surgery for malignant neoplasms of the stomach, conduct radiation diagnostics (computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging MRI, high-tech X-ray operating room), instrumental and laboratory diagnostics.
In addition, the clinic will provide innovative cell therapy, recovery and rehabilitation services after COVID-19.
Earlier it was reported that the Adonis medical group plans to open four branches in 2021.
Adonis is a network of private full-cycle medical centers for adults and children. The private clinic Adonis was founded over 20 years ago. The network includes ten branches in Kyiv and the region, including two of its own maternity hospitals and a stem cell laboratory. In the branches of the clinic, doctors conduct appointments in 60 medical directions.
Capital LLC (Kapital, Kyiv) has commissioned the second phase of the Oberig clinic, co-owner of Oberig and the Milk Alliance group of companies Oleksandr Derkach said on Facebook.
“As you already understood from my previous posts, our construction was completed. The second phase of the Oberig clinic was commissioned, and we began to receive the first patients there. Some 25,000 square meters, seven above ground floors and three underground, a large parking lot for employees and visitors, a charger station for electric vehicles, etc. Built in 2 years,” he wrote.
As reported, the beneficiaries of Capital LLC are Derkach and the director general of the Oberig clinic (Kyiv), Viktor Rybchuk.
Capital LLC was registered in 2005. Its core business is specialized medical practice.
The Oberig Universal Clinic medical center, one of the largest private investment projects in the field of healthcare in Ukraine, began work in 2008.
At the end of 2017, Capital LLC, within the framework of business social partnership and following the results of the won competition, began the construction of the second phase of the Oberig clinic in the territory of Kyiv City Clinical Hospital No. 14 in Zoolohichna Street.
