Mobile teams from the V.P. Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine have made more than 600 visits to hospitals and perinatal centers over the past four years to diagnose and treat premature newborns, according to Filatova. Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine have made more than 600 visits to hospitals and perinatal centers to diagnose and treat premature newborns, according to Oleg Zadorozhny, senior researcher at the Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.
“Our specialists have gained a lot of experience by traveling with the appropriate equipment to regional hospitals and perinatal centers to diagnose and treat severely premature babies. Over the past four years, more than 600 visits to hospitals have been made, more than 1,500 premature newborns have been screened, and about 200 telemedicine consultations have been conducted,” he said in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
Zadorozhny noted that helping premature newborns with retinopathy in the southern region of Ukraine has become the goal of a joint project with the charity “I Want to See. Southern Region,” under which the Institute has created a Center for the Prevention of Childhood Blindness due to Retinopathy of Prematurity and purchased expensive scientific and clinical equipment.
He added that the Institute’s scientists represent Ukraine in global research on the evaluation of the results of treatment of retinopathy of prematurity in Europe and worldwide as part of international research groups (FIREFLEYE next Study Group and European ROP registry), which are engaged in the study, diagnosis, and development of modern effective methods for the treatment of retinopathy of prematurity.
Source: https://interfax.com.ua/news/interview/1071616.html?utm_source=telegram
In the European Union, 3.67 million children were born in 2023, according to the EU Statistical Office (Eurostat). This is 5.4% lower than in 2022, when the number of newborns was 3.88 million.
The figure is the lowest since data collection began in 1961, and the year-on-year drop was also a record for this period. The highest number of children was born in 1964 – 6.8 million.
In 2023, the total fertility rate (the average number of children born per woman in her lifetime) fell to a record low of 1.38, compared to 1.46 the previous year.
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