TNMU Staff Presented the University’s Activities at the Ukrainian Hospital Partnerships Conference

On February 26-27, 2024, a two-day Ukrainian Hospital Partnerships Conference (UHPC) was held in Berlin by the Federal Government Funding Program for Hospital Partnerships in cooperation with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- XK34HbnCUc).

More than 150 doctors and health care workers from Ukraine and Germany, interested in cooperation, participated in the event. Ternopil National Medical University was represented by the Director of the Academic and Research Institute of Nursing, Svitlana Danchak, and the Head of the Project Management Department, Oksana Shevchuk.

The Hospital Partnership Funding Program is a set of measures between the German and Ukrainian healthcare systems. The network included 30 German and 50 Ukrainian hospitals, as well as medical non-governmental organizations. It includes representatives of civil society from both countries, who are actively working to preserve medical care for the population in war conditions and strengthen the Ukrainian health care system in the long term.

The emphasis in partnership cooperation is on rehabilitation, mental health, traumatology and emergency medicine, (paediatric) cardiology and cardiac surgery, diagnostics of infectious diseases, digital solutions and telemedicine, gynaecological and obstetric care and prevention of oncological diseases.

TNMU has been cooperating with Akkon University (Berlin) and IRIA and its director Professor Timo Ulrichs for many years. The conference was a great opportunity to meet and discuss future projects for cooperation on improving the training of nurses, introducing innovative approaches to higher nursing education, and teaching the basics of emergency care to the civilian population of Ukraine.

The conference “Partnership in the field of health care between Ukraine and Germany: Resilience, Recovery, EU Health Integration” provided an opportunity to open new horizons and plan the next steps for the development of nursing and medical education in Ukraine, to establish communication with potential partners from Ukraine and Germany.

Information was provided by Oksana Shevchuk.