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.
