Kherson Psychiatric Hospital Faces Crisis Over ₴70M Funding Shortfall

The situation in the Kherson Regional Psychiatric Hospital remains extremely difficult due to lack of funding.

This was reported by Pavlo Palamarchuk, director of the medical institution, on Vgrosh.

According to him, some employees were forced to suspend their employment contracts or resign, and those who remained were transferred to half-time work.

Due to a lack of funds, the hospital cannot comply with the Cabinet of Ministers' resolution, which stipulates a minimum salary of UAH 28,000 for doctors and UAH 19,000 for nurses. Instead, in February, the doctors received only 5 thousand hryvnias each, and this is in the combat zone.

Earlier, the head of the Kherson Regional Medical Association said that the hospital lacks about 70 million hryvnias to finance the hospital. If the problem is not solved, the staff will have to be reduced and 180 patients will have to be "placed somewhere," 70 of whom have no relatives.

At the end of January, hospital staff began spreading information on social media about the possible closure of the facility. The first deputy head of the Kherson Regional Council, Yuriy Sobolevsky, explained that the problem was funding from the National Health Service of Ukraine.

The Kherson Regional Psychiatric Hospital is located in the suburbs of Kherson, in the village of Stepanivka, and is one of the main medical institutions in the region specializing in psychiatric care.

Meanwhile, law enforcement officers have become interested in the renovation of the regional rehabilitation hospital in Kherson. They suspect that the money could have been paid for work that had not been completed. Inspections of the premises showed that the repairs are not complete and the work is still ongoing. The contractor has already received more than 22 million hryvnias.

And in the Novovorontsov community of the Kherson region, a modern storage facility was set up in the hospital. Intent has already written that one of the hospitals in Kherson has also completed repairs, installed the necessary medical equipment, and now the premises are fully ready to receive patients.

Ірина Глухова