Uzhgorod crew of palliative care "Hospice at Home", which has been operating at the city center for primary health care since late January, received a new vehicle. This was reported by the press service of the City Council.
The Fiat Qubo was purchased through the ProZorro’s electronic public procurement system at the expense of Uzhgorod city budget. The price of the vehicle id 327 thousand hryvnia, it can be used not only to take the crew to seriously ill patient, but also, if necessary, to bring a patient to the hospital.
The Mayor of Uzhgorod Bohdan Andriyiv met with the palliative care crew. The head physician of the city center for primary health care Tetyana Kozak said that the group is serving 77 patients. Every day, they do 8-10 visits to seriously ill patients with cancer, those who, for example, have suffered stroke, amputations due to diabetes and the like.
The crew consists of 9 specialists trained to provide palliative care: a doctor-therapist, three nurses, a psychologist, two social workers, a confessor, a driver.
In the conversation with the mayor, the medics noted that the visiting crew also provides assistance to relatives of the patients – support them psychologically, teach how to properly care for such patients. It was also said that, unfortunately, not only elderly, but also much younger Uzhgorod citizens are in need of palliative care and a stationary hospice, where incurable patients could be provided with decent quality of life and constant care, is urgently needed.
Bohdan Andriyiv thanked the crew for their hard work and told about the work on the construction of a future stationary hospice facility.
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