Children’s Hospital of the Future Charitable Foundation Representative Takes Part in the Ukrainian International School of Perinatal Medicine and Safe Motherhood First Symposium

Children’s Hospital of the Future Charitable Foundation representative Taras Tkachuk took part in the Ukrainian International School of Perinatal Medicine and Safe Motherhood First Symposium, held May 15-17, 2008, in Alushta, the AR of the Crimea.

The symposium presented a chance to estimate the present situation with perinatal aid in Ukraine, consider the problems and attainments faced in course of the creation of a perinatal center at the All-Ukrainian Center to Protect Mothers’ and Children’s Health, a.k.a. Children’s Hospital of the Future.

The symposium was sponsored by the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine, Ministry of Healthcare of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea, Shupyk National Medical Postgraduate Academy. Ukrainian Perinatal Medicine Alliance, and supported by the European Board and Colleagues of Obstetrics and Gynecology, International Society Fetus As A Patient, European Association of Perinatal Medicine, South-East European Association of Perinatology, and World Federation of Ukrainian Medical Associations.

The speakers at the Symposium were Birgit Arabin (the Netherlands-Germany), Prof. Grzegorz Bręborowicz (Poland), Prof. Marta Szymankiewicz (Poland), Prof. Louis Keith (the USA), Prof. Tanja Motrenko (Montenegro), Prof. Alexander Papitashvili (Georgia), et.al.

The Ukrainian Perinatal Medicine Alliance was created to combine the national experience with modern world practice in mothers’ and children’s healthcare. Its goal is coordinating consolidated efforts by specialists in various fields of medicine (obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive medicine, neonatology, sonology, medical genetics, children’s anesthesiology, etc.), psychologists, and paramedics to protect the health of pregnant woman, the prenatal children, and newborns; to bring the level of such aid in Ukraine closer to the modern level in the developed countries; give Ukrainian doctors and researchers a chance for free information exchange with foreign colleagues, attending lectures by leading European and American specialists, and undergoing trainings at best medical centers abroad.