At the Lviv Regional Hospital for War Veterans and Victims of Repression named after Yurii Lypa, one of the most advanced anaesthesiology and intensive care units in the Lviv region has begun operating after renovation. The department has been equipped to provide full-scale care for patients in extremely critical condition.
As part of the modernisation, two intensive care wards have been set up, a separate room for patients with myocardial infarction after stenting, as well as an isolation unit for critically ill patients with infectious diseases. The monitoring system covers 20 beds: real-time data on the condition of all patients are transmitted to a central station.
The unit has been fitted with new ventilators, a modern room ventilation system, and centralised supplies of oxygen, medical air and vacuum. The project was funded from the regional budget.
The management emphasises that the Yurii Lypa Hospital is being consistently developed as an integrated medical complex where patients can receive care at any level. Specialists in more than 30 fields work here, and the purpose of the modernisation is to provide conditions that match their professional level and the challenges of modern medicine.
In recent years, the facility has renovated the admissions and surgical departments, the premises for arthrology, vertebrology and neurosurgery, the stroke unit, part of the operating theatres, established a rehabilitation centre and installed an angiographic system. Now the intensive care unit has also undergone a thorough upgrade. This year, the Lviv Regional Cardiology Centre has been incorporated into the hospital’s structure.
Thanks to this, within a single medical complex patients can promptly receive emergency, surgical, cardiological, neurosurgical and orthopaedic care, undergo intensive therapy and rehabilitation. The need for such a comprehensive approach is particularly acute in the context of the full-scale war.
Since the start of the large-scale invasion, the hospital has provided care to more than 23,000 people affected by Russian aggression. In just the first eight months of this year, more than 5,000 patients have been treated here.
The hospital’s management stresses the need to prepare the healthcare system not only for operating in wartime conditions, but also for dealing with the consequences over the next five, ten or twenty years. The number of patients with severe injuries, the long-term effects of wounds, as well as cardiovascular and neurological complications, is expected to rise. The Yurii Lypa Hospital is seen as one of the key elements of this future system.
Regional leaders expressed their gratitude to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and Minister Viktor Liashko for supporting the hospital’s development, and to the hospital team led by Volodymyr Krasokha for their professionalism and readiness to take on the most complex cases.