Odesa chief doctors prefer cash savings

The total savings of the heads of Odesa medical institutions in 2025 amounted to UAH 36.3 million, 29.5 million, or 81%, in cash.

The Center forPublic Investigations together with Intent analyzed the annual declarations of the heads of 32 municipal non-profit healthcare enterprises of the Odesa City Council for the reporting year 2025 and found that they had 6.4 million in their bank accounts and no loans.

Maksym Holubenko, director of City Hospital No. 8, has the most savings: 5.7 million hryvnias. Of this amount, 5.3 million is $125,000 in cash, and another 400,000 hryvnias in cash. Only 55 dollars and 15 thousand hryvnias are on the account. Compared to 2024, savings have increased by 209% (then it was 1.85 million). The entire amount is personal, and there is no family in the declaration.

Ihor Shpak personally holds 70 thousand dollars and 25 thousand euros in cash (a total of 4.2 million hryvnias). His wife Victoria Baghdasaryan has 29 thousand 623 euros (1.48 million) on her account. This is a total increase of 22% by 2024.

Valeriy Shcherbatenko (JV #3) has 5.26 million, divided between him and his wife Olga Melnyk. The director personally holds: 5 thousand dollars and 115 thousand hryvnias in cash, as well as 4.8 thousand dollars, 12 thousand 182 euros and 610 thousand hryvnias in accounts (a total of 1.75 million). For his wife: 70 thousand dollars in cash (2.97 million) and another 450 thousand hryvnias and 1.8 thousand euros on accounts (0.54 million). The amount is almost stable: 2% by 2024.

Viktor Hoydyk (CDC #20) - 5.18 million. Personally: UAH 3.1 million in cash. His wife, Natalia Hoydyk, has 40 thousand dollars in cash (1.7 million), 6.4 thousand dollars and 54.2 thousand Czech crowns on her accounts (0.38 million in total). An increase of 14% by 2024.

Mykola Turchyn (City Clinical Hospital No. 11) - 3.37 million: 70 thousand dollars in cash (2.97 million) and 400 thousand hryvnias in cash. The entire amount is personal. Compared to 2024, it has decreased by 15% (then 3.96 million).

Eleven out of 32 leaders did not declare any savings, neither their own nor their family's: Olena Artyomova (DMCL #3), Dmytro Babenko (CDC #6), Natalia Bondarenko (DMP #5), Tetiana Bondarenko (DCCC), Olha Zbrozhyk (SPS), Valentyna Kartashova (baby home #1), Tetiana Kaftan (Primary Health Care Center #5), Larysa Marmusevych (DMP #3), Alina Suprunova (DMP #4), and Roksana Khokhlova (ML #5). Tetyana Chernenko (PHC #4) stands out separately - she did not declare any savings with an income of UAH 2.6 million.

Кирило Бойко