An analytical-expert research center in the public health area is created in Ukraine
An analytical-expert research center in the public health area is created in Ukraine. It was founded by the All-Ukrainian NGO “Foundation for Medical Law and Bioethics of Ukraine” under the support of the Public Health Program of the International Renaissance Foundation.
The main goal of the center is to develop efficient legal mechanisms for protection of the rights of patients and other participants of legal relations in the medical field. The main priorities of its activity include provision of professional public expert assessment of the problems in Ukraine’s public health, analysis of the national legal framework in health care and also impacting the shaping of Ukraine’s state policy in this area.
Victoria Tymoshevska, Public Health Program Director, noted: “Considering the condition of Ukraine’s state health care system, today there is an acute necessity for engaging professional NGOs into comprehensive and independent expert assessment of the current legislation in health care to influence the shaping of the new legal practices, aimed at protection of human rights in the public health care.”
In the health care system, on the average 40% of complaints concern health care workers’ wrong actions, 21% are related with unsatisfactory treatment in inpatient departments, 16.71% concern unsatisfactory medical service in outpatient clinics and polyclinics, 16.4% of complaints are submitted due to patients’ death and 5.88% concern brutal treatment of patients.
Contact information: All-Ukrainian NGO “Foundation for Medical Law and Bioethics of Ukraine”, Khrystyna Tereshko, (032) 27 28 001, 067 731 30 35, prlawlab@ukr.net
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The mission of the Public Health Program is to reform public health, to improve public health through support of new approaches to solution of urgent public health problems, in particular, by introduction of a complex model of protection of the rights of patients, palliative care, and support to people living with HIV/AIDS and non-medical drug use.
