Odessa
Medical NGOs.
History.
For the first time in the Ukraine, the Association of the NGOs with the main goal to improve the Health Care System and the environmental preservation through the change of the public policy on the regional level was organized in Odessa 1998, following the initiative of the Regional Odessa Branch of the Panukrainian Medical Association. The idea of the NGO “Public Council of the Public Health” as the permanent by functioning organization uniting the efforts of the NGOs, State and the businessmen was supported by the “Renaissance” International Society. The financial support of the Budapest Open Society University with the Grant for the “Partnership for the Effectiveness” realization was crucially important. According to the plan created during the project realization PUkrMA invited some other NGOs for the collaboration. The executive group of PCPH has fulfilled the preliminary work, set up the relations with the city administration and the City Council commissions. Together we performed some very important events. PCPH was officially registered in Juridical Odessa Area Office in June, 1999.
Citizens opinion
At seminars, “round tables”,
conferences in which not only the scientists participated, but also the
representatives of administration, journalists, leaders of the NGOs as well,
the Thesis about the effective Health Care System as the common achievement of
the whole society but not only the Health Care Workers was clearly formulated.
The Health Care Workers and the administration are always connected with the
specific problems as treatment of patients, materials and equipment, clinic
settings running etc. PCPH has a more wide view on the Health preservation,
first of all in the prevention and the society role in the Health Care problems
outcome. The public citizens of the City or Area must be involved in the
formation process they need for the preservation of their own health. All people have the
right to have the reliable information to make adequate decisions or to
influence the promotion into the Health Care, environmental preservation,
economic and social spheres. The Public Council may be a concealing
organization for the city or Area Governments. It unites the efforts of
medical, ecological, NGOs functioning for the Health Care improvement by
creating and realizing the regional programs in the Health Care initiating the
juridical acts and prescripts for the Health Care of the Local Governments,
promotion, information and education programs for the public activists, journalists,
administration, in scientific research and the social testing, etc.
PCPH is open to new members – every
legitimate
public organization. This society is open also to direct collaboration with the
people – citizens of the Area. For these reasons are functioning the permanent
and temporary Commissions in which the specialists from the different spheres
are collaborating. Council Collegiums are open to the different problems
discussions with the representatives of different society sectors and specific concrete
PCPH actions: “round tables”, seminars, conferences, etc. for everybody anxious
about social problems policy and Health preservation.
Structure of the
PCPH.
PCPH Board.
Permanent Commissions.
PCPH Administration.
Information /analytic Center.
PCPH consists of some permanent Commissions.
The Health Care System Reforms Commission. Prof, V.Kolodenko Chairman.
The Social and Medical
Support Commission. Prof. I.Galina Chairman.
Ecologic Human Health Commission. Prof.V.Rosanov and Prof. A.Cikalo Chairman.
Preventive Programs Commission. LSc.S.Pozdnyakov Chairman.
Mental Health Commission. Prof.
I.Ershova Chairman.
The status of the organization was
created after the special training held by Odessa State Medical University for
the members of the initiative group for the PCPH creation. The help of the
councilor from Toronto (Canada) Mr. Miroslav Cohut and the experience of the
same organizations from Canada and other countries as well was very important.
It was the deep impulse for the further development using the experience of the
other cities and Public organizations from the Ukraine as well.
Project realization.
First step.
PCPH started activities by the setting up of the collaboration with the City Council Health Commission and Medical City Administration and the invitation to work in the commissions to the known scientists, administrators, public leaders, journalists etc. In this way we started the real way-out of the narrow professional thinking and creation the circumstances out the city Health Care problems to dial with systemic level, for example similar to the “Odessa – Healthy City” project realization. There was a seminar held on this subject for the representatives of the Local Administration and MassMedia. Some reports were done by V.Pogoriliy – the executive director of the PCPH, head of the Commission on Preventive Programs – S.Pozdnyakov, head of the Public Health Department of the Ukraine Ministry of Health – Lev Melament. The representatives of Slavutich and Mirgorod shared the results of the “Healthy City” project realization. The same seminar was held in Illichivsk – Odessa satellite city. During such seminars we are creating the joint strategy of medical specialists, authorities, NGOs, journalists in the realization of the European WHO Bureau “Health for All” and the “Healthy City” projects. In this plan the unity and collaboration of the NGOs functioning at different levels is very important. For example PCPH collaborates with the Committee of the local ecological NGO of the complex ecology suburb Luzanivka. The members of the PCPH took part in the “round table” dedicated to the environment problems of this region and now are helping in creation of the family Health Care Setting in this district involving the commissions on the Health Care Reforms and Ecology. The Commission on The Preventive Programs took an active part in a scientific & practical Conference “Mental wellbeing of the family and the society: biological, psycho and social factors”. Today it is a very crucial problem, which might be treated only with the deep intersectoral collaboration of all who dealt with everybody involved in the Health preservation. It was the first attempt to discuss the mental situation in the society this way. The Social/Psychological Rehabilitation and Psychotherapy Institute based in the Lermontov Resort Center was the coordinator of this action. The interest of the doctors, psychologists/ psychotherapists in collaboration with teachers and others who can help in the Mental Health preservation is a good sign for the future intersectoral collaboration. At the end of the Conference there was a ”round table” – “The ways of the collaboration of the psychologists, doctors, teachers, social and police workers, and other specialists to improve the Mental Health”. It was marked that such a kind of collaboration must be at district and microdistrict levels but not only at the city level. In may 1999 we conducted the ”round table” to the deputies of the City Council and the business representatives devoted to Odessa good fresh water provision. The deep interest was evoked to the scientific & practical Conference “Lead and the children health” held by the Ecologic Commission of the PCPH, NGO “Ecologic Human Health” and the Hydrometeorologic Institute. Water, air and soil polluted with heavy metals became a threat for the young citizens of Odessa. Scientists focused attention on this problem, but the local authorities are not always open to that. NGOs must “wake up” everybody responsible for the ecologic problems of the city This is the position of PCPH as it was marked by V.Pogoriliy, deputy director. The Commission of the Social and Medical Support of PCPH (Prof.I.Galina Chairman) prepared the project of the City Council Decision for the protection of children with mental problems. This project should be discussed in the nearest future by the City Council.
Panukrainian Medical Association (Odessa Branch) was the initiator of the All-Ukraine Scientific & Practical Conference “The policy and Strategy of the Ukrainian State in Health Care System. The problems of the intermediate period”. It was focused on problems of the Public Policy in the Health Care, NGOs role, medical NGOs role and partners in the State Policy in the Health Care. The PCPH role as the correspondent mechanism for the setting of the principles of the open society and the problems outcome was demonstrated in the reports of V.Pogoriliy and M.Tyshchuk. These subjects became the main theme approaches of the Conference discussions because of the new in the State Policy especially at the local level. In collaboration with the international program “Policy” the commission on the Reproductive Health held the Session of PCPH and proposed a plan for the “Healthy Way of Life” project up to the end of 1999. The Panukrainian Medical Association Odessa Branch is collaborating with the “Ukrainian Parliament Support Program”. V.Pogoriliy and M.Tischuk took part in the Seminar for the Local City Councils of the South-Eastern Region and participated with the reports “Social Sphere: Health Care System in Ukraine: achievements and perspectives”. We have planned to conduct some sociologic testing in perspective.
One of such testing was performed in “Partnership for the Efficiency” project in April 1999 which gave an opportunity to state the relations between socio/economic and psychologic factors and the influence on the Health and the Health Care System of the City. (Detailed materials are included in the “Activities”
Plans.
We are living in a time of the
priority changes and the State role changing. The State is transferring its own
responsibilities from center to the periphery step by step, is beginning to
collaborate with people rather
than press. Value of personal life, but not the separate group of the population focuses the attention not only
of scientists and philantrops but Mass Media, politicians and administration as well.
This new situation seeks the new scale of marks. It is necessary to examine the level of
Health of the population, not the level of sickness only. Europe turns now
towards such kind of Health testing: number of years without illnesses and
invalidity of every citizen of the country. This is the way for the Ukraine, too
The main aim of the PCPH is running the WHO European policy – “Health for everyone in XXI”, one of the strategies is “common efforts in Health preservation with wide cooperation and involving correspondent partners in this field at different levels: in families, schools and institutions, city and town communities and all country supporting the joint process of the decisions, performance and the reports“. The above mentioned things absolutely require a positive economic situation but we need to prepare the basis for the reforms, in the social sphere and especially in the Health Care System today. PCPH started this movement in Odessa. In the nearest future PCPH supposes to propose the City Council “Odessa – Healthy City”. In our plans we have the organization of the “round tables” on crucial problems of the city life, ecologic problems, public discussions with the support of the city administration.
Besides, we are working on the creation of our own
Information Center. Operatively collected from the different sources social and
economic , ecologic data, the data on the Health level in Odessa and Area will
be distributed among the population and
will help people, through the NGOs, influence the problemic situations.
Location of PCPH
(Head office) 6, Slepneva str., Odessa, 270039, Ukraine.office
(Executive director): 2, Lermonovsky str., 270014, Ukraine.
Tel/Fax 3800482 242222
257050
E-mail:
NGOs
.
.Regional Odessa Branch of
the Panukrainian Medical Association
.Ukraine. 27029, Odessa, M.Arnautska str.,34/3.tel. 38+0482-222-954;
217-489. fax 38+0482-257-050.
The main aims and tasks are:
Population Health support, development of the science, medical problems outcome, professional Health Care workers support, social and juridical assistance.
Topics for cooperation:
Development and humanization of the Medical
Care improvement, creation of the civil society, human rights support of patients and Health Care Workers,
science development, environmental health and the Nature anthropogenic press
reduction, human resources development, health education improvement.
The
Youth Ecologic V.I.Vernadskiy Center.
Head is O.M.Prokopova, deputy is A.L.Cikalo.
Ukraine 270026, Odessa, Dvorianskaya str.,1/3. tel 380482-259-738.
Aim of the organization – ecologic safety, ecologic education improvement.
Organization activities: publishing of ecologic materials (buclets magazines etc.).
seminars, conferences.
ecologic expeditions for children and youth.
ecologic expertise.
ecologic actions.
Topics for cooperation: preparing and publishing of the educational methodological ecological materials
drinking water problems.
utilization of waste materials,
recycling.
Social/Psychological Rehabilitation and
Psychotherapy Institute.
Head is S.V.Dvoriyak (Head of the Scientific Council). Deputy of the Scientific Council is M.Tyshchuk.
Ukraine 270014, Odessa, Lermontovsky per.2. Tel.380482-257-050. 380482-222-954
The main aims are: the support of the
Nation Mental Health, progress in science, Health care System Improvement,
education and the development of psychotherapy, psychology and rehabilitation,
humanism in treatment.
The main tasks are:
creating the effective cooperation with the other medical specialists, teachers, social workers.
education in psychotherapy.
scientific research.
sociological testing, collecting, reservation and the distribution of the information, printing.
psychotherapeutic Care and the Psychologic Concealing.
humanization of the patient-doctor-family-society relations. Distributing the ideas of the “Healthy Life Stile” and the other actual questions of the Ukrainian Health Care System Improvement.
Topics for cooperation:
Preservation of the Mental Health.
Preventive Programs
and the “Healthy Life Stile” promotion.
Prevention of the violence and results reducing, humanization of the society.
Socio/Psychologic support, consulting and guard of the target population groups.
Information, education, publishing.
Odessa Local Health Care Veterans Organization.
The head is Prof.I.Ratovskiy.
Ukraine 27029, Odessa, Bunina str.29.
The main aims and tasks are:
The Health Care Veterans rights and interests support. Charity and support of the pensioners. Financial and Cultural Support.
Topics for cooperation: Social support of the old people. Public Activities.
“Healthy Life” propaganda.
Human Ecological Health, non-government organization.
Organized to provide measures for better human ecological health. Main actions are connected with environmental health activities, collection and distribution of ecological and medical information, organization of lectures, seminars, conferences, providing for medical-psychological adaptation of retired regular military servicemen.
The head of the Organization is Prof. Vsevolod Rozanov, Head of the Board
Address: Zooparkovaya str. 25 Tel. 22-65-65, 22-52-83
Topics for cooperation: human ecolofy in a holistic view, search of mechanisms of lowering of anthropogenic influence on the environment, search of the ways of compensation of the negative environmental influence on the human being, human resources development, ecological education improvement.
One of the new and very active NGO working as
the Charity organization is Assistance
and Development Fund.
President of the Assistance and Development
Fund - Sitnikov
Anatoliy Ivanovich.
In past the Principal Director of the Open
Shareholders Society "PHARMACIJA"(Odessa Area Pharmacy Department),
head doctor of the city hospital.
Education.
High Medical and High Pharmaceutical.
Business
experience.
Over 10 years.
The fundator
of the medical and
pharmaceutical firms, among which is the first in the Ukraine Center for
Rehabilitation working by the USA system for AA "Stupeny".
Vice-president - Pozdnyakov Sergiy Vasilievich
MD,PhD.
Lead Scientist of the Ukrainian I.I.Mechikov
Anti Plague Research Institute (Emergent Diseases).
The member of the Ukrainian and Odessa Area
Boared of HIV/AIDS prevention. Member of the Executive Comittee for the
Prevention of the Veral Hepatities of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health. The Scientific
councelor of the medical programs of biotechologocal firm ORGENICS in Ukraine.
(Rapid diagnostics).
Business
experience.
Over 10 years.
Vice-president - Filichkin Nikolai Ivanovich.
Lawer. Member of the Odessa Area Chamber of
Lawers. Deputy of the Odessa Branch Director of the "CheMeK"
(Chemistry, Medicine, Kiev)
Business
experience.
Over 10 years.
Ivanov
Victor Nikolaevich
The physician of the Odessa City Hospital. The
fundator of the commercial medical, pharmaceuticals firms and the enterprises
of the agriculture products treatment and food production.
Galievsky
Gennadiy Victorovich
In past the general director of the
pharmaceutical firm "VIAPHARM".
The fundator of commercial firms.
Mother
Serafima
The head principal of the Holly Archangel
Mikhail Woman Abbey of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The religeous lider.
Writer.
PUSELIK Frank R.,
The president of firm PUSELIK & ASSOCIATES
(USA, analysis – consulting- reorganization, Programs-Trainings).
Drs. Hugo J. BUSSER,
The director - Senior adviser of firm EUROSENSE
(Netherlands, Trainings, Development of the projects).
Assistance and Development Fund is the new
formed non profit charitable organization founded by well known in and outside Odessa people, among which are
businessman, scientists, lawyers, representatives of church and others.
This fond was registered in Odessa in the
Regional Department of Justice (Ukraine), March, 29,2000.
The main fields of the Assistance and
Development Fund Activities for the
2000-2005 in Odessa, Odessa area and the Southern Region of the Ukraine are:
Assistance in the diagnostic, preventive and
treatment and the material basis improvement of the Health Care System.
Assistance on the improvement of the material
basis of the Education System.
Assistance in the mental and spiritual
development (culture, religion , arts),
Assistance in the development of the farms
agriculture settings and the factories for the agriculture products proceeding
and the food production.
Assistance of the small and middle business
development.
Assistance in charity support for the poor
groups of population.
Assistance for the youth organizations in
information and educative programs (seminars, conferences, training, etc),
social/cultural events (exhibitions, presentations, etc).
The basis of the Fund activities will be formed
by the target complex programs for the assistance in the new forms of business
and relations among people in the new sphere of the free market conditions,
organization of the new work places, firms and settings, protection of the poor
circles of population.
The Fund suppose these programs are very
important especially in present time, when the State is unable to overcome existed
problems.
The Fund look for the cooperation with the NGOs
and nonprofit organizations, other charity funds from Ukraine and abroad,
businessman and all other people of the Good Will.
The Fund started activities in the deep
collaboration with the City and Area Administrations, Health Care System
Authorities and the Department of the Agriculture. We suppose to check the
forms of activities in practice and in case of positive results to spread the
experience into the whole Southern Region of the Ukraine.
In present we are working for the possible
partners in accepting the charity deliveries in Odessa and Illichivsk see
ports.
At the same time we are discussing organization
of the stock which will be suitable for the preserving and transmission the
goods in volumes not for Odessa or Odessa Area, but for the Southern Region of
the Ukraine.
One of the most important concrete Fund
Programs is one of rendering assistance
for The Health Care System Settings in prevention of HIV/AIDS, IV Drug Abuse
and creation of the target Rehabilitation Center. You can get more information
about the HIV/AIDS and IVDA in Ukraine if contact collaborative "Quantum
Net" NGO.
(https://members.tripod.com/Odessa_v_AIDS/).
The Fund would be very glad to invite everyone
and all Organizations, Funds and Settings, wishing to take part in practical
realization of our Programs.
Our contact lines are:
Post Address: 15 Gimnazicheskaya Str., Apt.3,
Odessa, 65023, Ukraine.
Assistance
and Development Fund.
Fax/voice +380 (0482) – 682560,
634416/
E-mail: rivoli@tm.odessa.ua