Dobroslav Hospital Reports Financials and Healthcare Developments for 2024

On February 17, Dobroslav deputies approved the report of the director of the Dobroslav hospital, Tetiana Taran.

The director of the Dobroslav hospital, Tetiana Taran, told the audience that in 2024, 19 packages of medical services were concluded under the medical guarantee program under an agreement with the National Health Service.

We planned to receive UAH 64 million 382 thousand from the NHSU for the provision of primary and special medical care, and received UAH 69 million 80 million. We also received UAH 2 million 717 thousand from renting premises and paid medical services. At the same time, UAH 8 million 227 thousand was received from the local budget.

Last year's total revenues amounted to UAH 80 million 24 thousand. Of this amount, UAH 60 million 73 thousand was spent on salaries, UAH 2 million 900 thousand on food and business activities, UAH 1 million 745 thousand on equipment, UAH 7 million 110 thousand on energy and utilities, UAH 680 thousand on items and inventory, UAH 2 million 800 thousand on medicines and bandages, and UAH 1 million 117 thousand on special food, dental prosthetics, and other services. Total expenses amounted to UAH 76 million 397 thousand.

In addition, a reverse osmosis water system was installed at the expense of the local budget, with UAH 577,574 spent. The village council allocated UAH 230 thousand to purchase food for 1 child with an orphan disease.

The local budget also allocated UAH 310 thousand for dental prosthetics and free medicines for the community residents. Under the "Affordable Medicines" program, free prescriptions for insulin were issued to 719 patients and 345 patients with mental disorders. A total of 6,630 free prescriptions were issued.

Under the USAID Building a Resilient Public Health System program, 67 women were examined by a mammologist, and ultrasound examinations of the mammary glands were performed, which revealed 40 cases of breast pathology.

The head of the hospital emphasized that Dobroslav hospital, as well as in Ukraine as a whole, lacks medical staff, with one in four medical vacancies not being filled, and 50% of the staff being of retirement or pre-retirement age. Young people go to private clinics or go abroad.

In 2024, 98982 outpatient services were provided, 3779 people visited dentists, 178 military personnel and 27 internally displaced persons were assisted.

Last year, 194 babies were born (according to the plan, at least 200 children were to be born), one twin, 97 boys and 97 girls. A total of 57 children were born by cesarean section. The hospital director said that the NHS plans to stop funding maternity wards where fewer than 400 babies are born per year next year. The decision is justified by a decrease in the qualifications of the medical staff of such institutions, which, she said, could affect the mortality rate among infants and women in labor.

Tetyana Taran noted that in January, 29 babies were born in Dobroslav hospital, while 56 were born in the perinatal center in Odesa. Therefore, she believes that this is not a bad indicator for the institution she manages.

Last year, 1856 scheduled and urgent surgical, orthopedic, obstetric, gynecological and urological operations were performed. Thanks to the latest equipment, a new stage of vascular and trauma surgery has begun. Minimally invasive surgery continues to develop. In 2024, 24 vascular phlebectomy operations were performed, and a joint replacement surgery was performed.

In 2024, humanitarian aid was received. Thanks to it, modern lung ventilators and air conditioners were installed in the surgical, gynecological, and intensive care units, and a gynecological chair was received from the Ukrainian Soul charity foundation. After the overhaul, the hospital opened a modern surgical department, reconstructed the operating room and renovated the wards for a comfortable stay of patients, and opened a diagnostic department with a telemedicine room 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, which includes a new set of examinations, biochemical blood tests, ultrasound of the abdominal cavity, chest, thyroid, mammary glands, and pelvis.

In addition, a memorandum was signed with the Republic of Lithuania to install a 400 kW solar power plant on the ground, and a 40 kW solar power plant on the roof is to be installed by an American charity organization. According to Liudmyla Prokopechko, head of the village council, this will significantly reduce the local budget's energy costs and allow the money to be used for other needs.

Тетяна Коломійцева