HEALTH PROTECTION

The medicine in the region is a branched system of hospitals, dispensaries, maternity homes, chemist's shops, outpatient clinics and surgery-midwifery stations. Health protection of Zaporizhzhya region has a powerful potential of scientists and experts. Almost 9000 doctors and more than 20 thousand of middle medical staff are employed in 667 medical institutions. Among them there are 43 honoured medics of Ukraine , 6 honoured medical workers, 6 medics are rewarded by the order “Olga Princess”, 1 – the order “Yaroslav Mudriy”, 16 – medals “For the development of the region”.

Regional medical staff is being studied at 5 educational institutions: Zaporizhzhya state medical university, medical academy of postgraduate studying, 3 medical schools, with 743 teachers (there are 93 doctors of medical science and 337 candidates to doctors of medical science, 72 professors and 163 docents among them).

There are following medical institutions operate in the region: Centre of multiorgan transplantation, Centre of ear and deaf-and-dumb microsurgery, regional Centre of children's cardio surgery service, regional Service of hand microsurgery, regional Centre of joint endoprosthetics, Zaporizhzhya regional cardio clinic.

Regional paramedic service network is presented by 65 institutions. The leader of this branch is regional clinic of extreme and urgent medic assistance for 780 beds with 64 mobile brigades.

The pride of regional health protection is Zaporizhzhya infection hospital constructed and equipped in accordance with world standards. Not everywhere in Ukraine there are such modern and specialized centres – hepatocentre, “TORCH” Centre of immunoprophlaxis and serodiagnosis of infectious diseases.

The only Ukrainian medical institution, where it is possible to receive comprehensive medical-diagnostic modern-level help regarding children's and parents' health, conjugal relations, planning of family and barrenness, including operative treatment is Zaporizhzhya regional centre of reproductive function of the family rehabilitation.

During 2005 “Clinic opened for youth”, regional medical genetic centre were opened on the base of the regional clinic children hospital.

Complex treatment and rehabilitation of pre-school and school age children is provided by 7 children's sanatoriums: sanatorium for consumptives (Berdians'k); bone tuberculosis sanatorium (Zaporizhzhya); rheumatic cardiologic sanatorium (Molochans'k); versatile preschool sanatorium (Zaporizhzhya); pneumo-gastroenterologic sanatorium (Melitopol); psycho-neurologic sanatorium for children of preschool and school age (Zaporizhzhya).

Professor Nikonenko founded in 1992 one of the best Ukrainian centres – The Centre of multiorgan transplantation with blood clearing unit on the base of regional clinical hospital. Zaporizhzhya transplantologists in accordance with the most modern technologies performed 340 operations connected with kidney transplantation (including 16 made to children) and 8 connected with liver transplantation, mastered under stomach gland transplantation and fi rstly in Ukraine performed heart transplantation.

Regional surgery centre successfully operate on the base of regional clinic hospital. This surgery centre contains subdivisions of cardio surgery which specialists make a line of complicate world-known operations for installing of different artificial components of human blood and heart system. The Centre of children's heart surgery was found in 2001. This centre provides surgery assistance to children with hereditary defects of heart and blood system. The Regional centre of sport trauma is affectively functioning in liquidation of different sport diseases.

Regional hand microsurgery and regional Centre of joint endoprosthetics are functioned on the base of the 9th hospital in Zaporizhzhya. This hospital is the leading medical institution of Ukraine and is rewarded by the national diploma “The best enterprise of national image program “Leaders of XXI centuries”.

Re-equipment of the regional oncology dispensary, where the new method of a growth cure introduced, is carried out.

The achievements of Zaporizhzhya ophthalmologists in implantation of artificial eye crystal are well-known not only within Ukraine but also far abroad. Unique operations of creation of artificial bladder and gullet were made in 2001.

There are 2000 high-class specialists of pharmaceutical industry operating in the region. The number of drugstores per head considerably exceeds the average Ukrainian number. All of them are involved into producing and selling of drugs.