Medical association of obstetrics and gynecology, which includes maternity hospital No. 1 on the street Mechnikova and the maternity ward of the 3rd hospital on St. Rappoport, will be reorganized. The corresponding resolutions were adopted on May 25 at the session of the Lviv City Council. This is due to the fact that the medical association, due to a number of reasons, is financially unsustainable and has no prospects for development.
As the general director of the Third Medical Association, Lesya Kobetska, explained, obstetrics and gynecology is a priority area of work of the TMO. However, over the past year, the level of providing this assistance has significantly decreased, as the number of births has decreased. At the same time, due to the large number of employees, arrears for the payment of wages previously arose. So, due to these factors, the medical association is financially unsustainable.
“Because of the full-scale invasion, a lot of women have gone abroad, and many do not dare to give birth. Therefore, compared to last year, the number of births in our country has decreased sharply – by one thousand. Accordingly, the provision of medical assistance decreased. Therefore, as a single-specialty institution, we cannot be financially viable. In addition, we are overstaffed due to the fact that when the medical care for covid patients provided by the maternity hospital was provided, additional staff were recruited and then not returned to normal. Therefore, at the end of last year, there was a debt of 28 million hryvnias for salaries. The Lviv City Council helped us pay this salary, and we ended up with a balance of UAH 13 million, which, in fact, we are now holding on to,” said Lesya Kobetska.
Therefore, the working group, which investigated the effectiveness of the medical association, came to the conclusion to reorganize it by joining the medical institutions to the First and Second TMO. After all, they plan to enter the so-called capable network, where such directions of assistance as obstetrics and gynecology are provided. In general, the First and Second medical associations are multidisciplinary and provide a large number of different medical services, and therefore are profitable.
The First Medical Association of Lviv will join the maternity hospital No. 1 on the street. Mechnikova and units of the 3rd City Clinical Hospital at the following addresses: str. Velichkovskogo, 30A; St. Shevchenko, 350, 358B and 366 (Ryasne microdistrict); with. Ryasne-Ruske (Nezalezhnosti St., 1).
The divisions of the 3rd city clinical hospital at the following addresses will be attached to the Second Medical Association of Lviv: str. Rappoporta, 6 and 8; St. Rusovyh, 4; St. Ozarkevicha, 2.
The property of the Third Medical Association is proposed to be transferred to the First Medical Association. We will remind you that the Third Medical Association of Lviv was established in January 2022.