Lita Plus plastic surgery clinic relocated from Kiev region will open a plastic surgery clinic in Zakarpattya region, Lita Plus clinic founder Serhiy Derbak said.
“We moved the clinic to Uzhgorod together with the equipment and the team, which is 35 people. Our clinic was located in Irpen, and it was completely destroyed during the hostilities, so we simply had no place left to operate,” he said in an interview with the agency ‘Interfax-Ukraine’.
Derbak noted that after the aggressor destroyed a clinic in the Kiev region, “the decision to build a clinic in Uzhgorod was natural.”
“We saw another important factor – logistics for patients. I conducted a statistic: 80% of our patients today come from abroad. These are Ukrainians who left during the war, but return to Ukraine to receive medical services. That is why medical services will remain very important for Transcarpathia as a region. And that is why we have decided: we will build here,” he said.
Derbak noted that the clinic project will consist of two buildings – surgical and hospital.
“One building is a completely new surgical center with an area of 1000 square meters, equipped, in particular, and its own bunker – with all the necessary security elements, which, unfortunately, were very much needed in Bucha. The new clinic has already taken all these risks into account. Perhaps it is a consequence of traumatic experience, but I don’t want to experience something like that again. The second building is the reconstruction of the existing building for the hospital,” he said.
Derbak noted that “the surgical building is designed according to the highest standards: even open-heart surgeries can be performed there – with proper ventilation, air sterilization and all medical requirements”.
The next stage of the project’s development will be the opening of a large balneological department.
“We have already conducted two wells – to a depth of 1,200 and 800 meters – and have thermal rhodon water, which is ideal for treating scars. After the war, we plan to operate as a specialized plastic surgery clinic for patients with scar deformities. In addition, we will create a rehabilitation center for the military: we will combine surgical care, balneological treatment, physical rehabilitation after injuries, surgeries, burns and contractures,” he said.
Leading plastic surgeons from all over Ukraine gathered at the Breast Weekend 2.0 conference organized by Lita Plus clinic on the initiative of its founder, Sergey Derbak.
At the conference, which took place on April 26 in Uzhhorod, leading experts discussed, among other things, modern approaches to reconstruction after trauma and cancer, which is an extremely important area for Ukrainian medicine in the context of war and the ever-growing need to restore the quality of life of victims.
“Today, plastic and reconstructive surgery in Ukraine is reaching a new level. It is not only about restoring appearance, it is about restoring people’s faith in themselves, in life, in the future. And we, the medical community, must do everything possible to support our people and our country,” said Serhiy Derbak, founder of Lita Plus clinic and initiator of the conference.
Breast Weekend 2.0 has become not only a manifestation of support for the army, but also an important step for the development of plastic and reconstructive surgery in Ukraine, an industry that is now gaining new strategic importance and shaping the future of national medicine.
Source: https://interfax.com.ua/news/pharmacy/1067245.html
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On April 26, 2025, Uzhhorod will host the largest medical event in Ukraine – the Breast Weekend 2.0 conference, which will bring together industry leaders to share experiences, discuss modern techniques and the latest approaches in the field of aesthetic and oncoplastic mammoplasty. The conference is organized by Lita Plus Plastic Surgery Clinic.
The event will bring together more than 200 leading plastic surgeons, oncologists, cosmetologists, dermatologists and reconstructive surgeons to discuss topical issues of mammoplasty and at the same time support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
A separate part of the conference will be a special panel devoted to complex cases of recovery of people who were seriously injured during the war. It will be presented by Oleksandr Turkevych, co-founder of the Neopalymi charity project, an initiative that brings together doctors to help combat victims, including in the treatment of scars, burns, and severe injuries.
The main mission is medicine for victory
In addition to its scientific value, the conference has a key charitable goal: all funds raised will be used to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
During the gala dinner that will take place after the conference, an additional fundraiser will be held to help the Ukrainian military.
About theorganizer: Lita Plus Clinic is a center for plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine that has already organized three charity conferences since the beginning of the full-scale invasion and purchased more than 10 vehicles for the military with the proceeds from previous events.
Program and key topics of the conference:
Speakers:
Serhiy Derbak , founder and head of Lita Plus clinic; Ruslan Humennyi , founder and plastic surgeon of PlastArt clinics; Vasyl Khrapach , MD, professor of the Department of Surgery at Bogomolets National Medical University; Yevhen Simulik , head of the Department of Microvascular, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the National Center of Surgery and Transplantation named after O.O. Shalimov; Sergiy Romanyuk, Head of the Surgical Department of the Artmedium Clinic, Doctor of the highest category; Denys Pominchuk , Founder of the VERUM EXPERT Clinic; Andriy Zhyhulin , Head and Founder of the Mammology Center at the LISOD Israeli Oncology Hospital; Bohdan Shevnya , Director of Altamedica Medical Center LLC; Oleg Savenkov , Head of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Garvis Clinic; Artem Fedosov , Head of the Mammology Center at the Innovation Clinic; Oleksandr Karpinsky, surgeon at the Lita Plus Clinic; Ihor Drobner, oncologist and mammologist at the Khmelnytsky Regional Anti-Tumor Center; Tetiana Shevchuk, oncologist and mammologist at the VERUM EXPERT Medical Center; Sergiy Chuklin, oncologist and mammologist at St. Paraskeva Medical Center; Dmytro Bukhteev, oncologist and mammologist at the Center for Mammology at LISOD Israeli Oncology Hospital; Dmytro Mozhayev, oncologist, plastic surgeon at the Harvis Clinic and Medical Plaza, etc.
Conference partners: Motiva, Polytech Ukraine, Mentor Optimum Ukraine, Mentor Askmed, Vaser, CareForm.
Media partners: General media partner – Interfax Ukraine news agency; TV partner – Inter TV channel, Pryamyy TV channel.
With the support of associations – UPRADAS, ESSA.
Date: April 26, 2025
Location: Uzhhorod, hotel complex “Derenivska Kupil”
Start time: 08:00.
Online registration, agenda and other information are available on the website: https://livesurgery-transcarpathian.com
Media accreditation: +38 095 123 28 83, pr@litaplus.com (contact person: Kira Skrypnyk).
Interfax-Ukraine is a media partner
Source: https://interfax.com.ua/news/press-release/1065096.html
Private healthcare facilities are ready to work under the Medical Guarantee Program (MGP) and propose to revise approaches to the formation of certain packages for the MGP, which will reduce the cost of medical services and optimize budget expenditures.
This was stated by members of the Association of Private Medical Institutions (APMI) at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.
Mykola Skavronsky, deputy director general of the Cinevo medical laboratory, noted that the laboratory has not stopped working since the beginning of the war, despite the fact that in 2022 Cinevo lost more than 30 branches in different regions.
“It’s quite a shame to see that recovery programs exist only for state or municipal medicine. This completely ignores the fact that private medicine also suffered from the war. But, unlike the state and municipal ones, all private providers are recovering and continue to work with their own or credit funds, not with budget funds and without assistance,” he said.
Commenting on the first experience of Cinevo’s cooperation with the NHSU in 2024, Skavronsky noted that the laboratory’s entry into the PMG “became a kind of spotlight that highlighted the situation with the laboratory industry in Ukraine as a whole.”
“I can say that the state does not know and does not understand the real need of doctors and patients for laboratory diagnostics. Now it is believed that laboratory diagnostics are needed as much as they are ordered, not as much as they are needed. Cinevo’s cooperation with the NHSU has revealed the fact that there is simply a huge unrealized demand for laboratory diagnostics in Ukraine, in March last year alone, we performed almost 730 thousand tests for 72 thousand people, and we saw that of these people who came to us for PMG, two-thirds were new people,” he said.
Skavronsky noted that at basic prices, Cinevo performed tests for about UAH 528 million, at prices, the cost of tests was about UAH 200 million, while the NHSU paid UAH 44 million for them.
“We asked the NHSU to create a laboratory package that would be transparent and clear, where it would be clear what tests and, most importantly, which doctors can prescribe them and in what quantity. Because it turned out that there were no restrictions at all, doctors prescribed tests that should not have been prescribed. It is not the laboratory that should decide what to do and what not to do, there should be a system that simply does not allow prescribing something wrong,” he said.
According to Skavronsky, one of the most popular tests funded by the budget in 2024 was vitamin D tests, of which the laboratory performed about 100 thousand.
“I don’t think Ukraine is such a rich country to cover vitamin D tests in such volumes at the expense of taxpayers. But doctors prescribe them. Why doctors prescribe them is a bigger question for doctors and pharmaceutical companies,” he emphasized.
Skavronsky also emphasized that the implementation of the proposals developed by the laboratory allowed “not only not to increase the tariff, but even to reduce it.”
“As a private laboratory, we would be ready to work with tariffs that are 15% lower, but subject to clear criteria. In recent years, we have heard that money follows the patient, but over the past year, especially in the first quarter, we have seen that money does not follow the patient,” he said.
For his part, Vadym Zukin, Chief Operating Officer of the Leleka Multidisciplinary Medical Center, reminded that Leleka is the only medical center in Ukraine that has international JCI accreditation, and the clinic received its latest confirmation at the end of 2024.
“Literally two months before the full-scale invasion began, the Minister of Health and his deputy came to us and we discussed how these standards could be implemented for other market players. But now it seems that the state is sailing its own ship, and we are trying to catch up with the Ministry of Health and convince it of something,” he explained the situation.
Zukin emphasized that “the state should realize that it is more profitable for it to become a purchaser of medical services rather than a provider and not to invest in fixed assets, since private companies already have these funds.”
He also suggested that the NHSU should enter into longer-term contracts for participation in the PMG.
“Currently, certain PMG packages will have three-year contracts, which is better than one year, but it means nothing, because in Europe and the US they think in terms of seven years, 10 years, 15 years,” he said.
Zukin believes that “now the reform has started to move a little bit in the opposite direction from the notion that money follows patients, and I would like to bring it back in the right direction.”
For her part, Oleksandra Mashkevych, medical director of the Dobrobut medical network, noted that the network is a major taxpayer, employing 3,000 people, including 1,300 doctors. At the same time, 131 employees have been mobilized from Dobrobut and the clinic continues to pay their salaries.
“We are recognized by the Ministry of Health as critical infrastructure. In 2024, we invested almost UAH 0.5 billion in our development, most of which was spent on our energy efficiency. I would like to note that investments in energy efficiency in state and municipal institutions are not made at their own expense, but at the expense of the state or donors or sponsors. We do it on our own,” she said.
At the same time, Mashkevych emphasized that Dobrobut’s cooperation with the NHSU is “quite interesting.” In particular, the clinic has been contracted for a package of assisted reproductive technologies, under which 300 patients have completed treatment cycles and almost 45% of women have already confirmed pregnancy status.
“The tariff for this service was too low for us, we worked in the red, realizing that we were lending a hand to the state, in fact, we gave the state the opportunity to use our facilities to provide free medical services. We had long rounds of negotiations with the NHSU, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Finance, and they heard us and increased the tariff. This tariff does not cover all our expenses, but we continue to work with it,” she said.
Commenting on the plans to work with the NHSU, Mashkevich noted that Dobrobut plans to expand its participation in the UHI-2025 and is waiting for the NHSU’s decision on contracting for new packages.
At the same time, Mashkevych called it a positive decision to allow private institutions to use the state unified portal of medical vacancies launched by the Ministry of Health.
The press conference was organized by the Interfax-Ukraine agency and the Association of Private Medical Institutions.
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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.
