by Milena Chodoła and Dorota Zadroga

At the top of February, the Polish Medical Mission accomplished the primary six months of the one-year mission titled „Strengthening neonatal and obstetric healthcare within the war-affected areas of Ukraine”. Activities are being applied in 10 neonatology hospitals in Ukraine, positioned within the cities of Kyiv, Dnipro, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava and Lviv. Cooperation with Ukrainian neonatologists in supporting this department of drugs is a continuation of one of many main tasks of the Polish Medical Mission’s portfolio worldwide. The Polish affiliation is finishing up related actions in Colombia, Venezuela and Tanzania. The group grew to become concerned in actions to assist Ukraine’s healthcare system after the battle started, offering specialised help to hospitals throughout the nation.

In the primary quarter of the mission, beginning September 1st 2022, a wants evaluation on medical coaching for Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) was carried out in 10 hospitals. Based on it, a coaching plan (together with the strategy, methodology, scheme and work plan of trainers) was ready, taking into consideration the present wants of every hospital. The course of of buying specialised tools has additionally begun — a complicated and high-quality neonatal resuscitation station, in addition to a neonatal affected person monitor (for measuring and analyzing important indicators) and a neonatal infusion pump have been on the checklist for every establishment. In accordance with the schedule, a whole plan of actions for the subsequent second quarter of the mission was developed by the top of November. Cooperation agreements with hospitals have been signed and a mission workforce of 27 employees members was recruited in Ukraine, together with medical coaching coordinators, medical trainers, affected person rights coaching coordinators, affected person rights educators and administrative representatives of hospitals.

As a part of the assist for pregnant and postpartum sufferers, a sequence of onsite classes elevating consciousness of sufferers’ rights, being pregnant and new child care, shall be held up month-to-month at every of the hospitals included within the mission. Of the deliberate 80 trainings, 10 have already taken place, one at every facility. A complete of 102 sufferers have taken half in them. There have additionally been two complementary on-line classes (out of a deliberate 8) elevating consciousness about sufferers’ rights, being pregnant and new child care for ladies who’re sufferers or whose newborns are sufferers. A complete of 42 feminine sufferers attended.

The second quarter was dedicated to equipping hospitals and launching medical and affected person rights trainings for well being staff and awareness-raising classes for sufferers. In every of the ten hospitals, additionally stationary coaching classes have been being held for medical personnel in the usage of neonatal resuscitation stations and neonatal affected person displays.

In December 2022, stationary medical coaching for employees of the neonatology and obstetrics departments started, ending in early February 2023. The mission held one 4-day medical coaching in every of the ten hospitals. A complete of 346 medical doctors from Ukraine participated in all 10 medical trainings (the mission’s indicators deliberate for at least 100 medical doctors from 10 hospitals to take part in in-person medical trainings, greater than tripling the anticipated consequence).

Prior to attending the in-person medical trainings for well being staff in 10 hospitals, trainees stuffed out an nameless information take a look at, which was repeated upon its completion. By compiling the outcomes from the take a look at earlier than the coaching, in addition to after the coaching, it was verified to what extent the trainees raised their stage of data. Approximately 95% of the collaborating medical doctors elevated their stage of data within the matters that have been lined within the coaching. They additionally stuffed out an nameless questionnaire surveying their stage of satisfaction with the coaching. Some 93% of the medical doctors gave the utmost rating for the coaching, or 5 factors; the remaining 7% of medical doctors rated the coaching on a scale of 4 to 4.9 factors.

In the second half of January 2023, two on-line occasions have been additionally organized on the Ukrainian medical platform Medvoice, streaming from January 17-19, whereas recordings of them are actually accessible on-line. One, titled “Becoming a mom during wartime: important things to know”, is ready for sufferers throughout Ukraine. The webinar has been replayed 780 occasions to date (February 28, 2023). The second is geared toward medical professionals, additionally throughout Ukraine, and was titled “Doctor-patient communication: foreign practices and Ukrainian realities”. So far, 1,607 medical doctors from Ukraine have registered, of which 995 medical doctors took the net course, handed the take a look at and obtained a certificates. The occasions have been held below the auspices of the National Health Service of Ukraine. In addition, the net course for medical doctors has been registered with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, so medical doctors who participated and handed the net take a look at obtained a certificates and official credit from the Ministry, which medical doctors accumulate to verify the continual improvement of their skilled {qualifications}.

On February 16, 2023 the second on-line coaching on affected person rights was held for the medical employees of the ten neonatology hospitals collaborating within the mission (a complete of 8 such on-line trainings carried out at common intervals are deliberate). A complete of fifty medical doctors from 10 hospitals have already participated in these trainings. The function of the conferences run on the Zoom platform is to boost consciousness amongst medical professionals about affected person rights, authorized legal responsibility of hospitals and medical doctors, communication with sufferers, and counteracting skilled burnout and taking good care of medical doctors’ well-being. It additionally demonstrates good practices utilized by Polish and EU medical doctors within the area of affected person rights. Small teams enable members to alternate insights and experiences, and to a larger extent assimilate the information from the coaching.

Total numbers:

10 NICUs in mission

995 educated medical employees representatives in on-line course on affected person rights on Medvoice

346 educated medical employees representatives in stationary medical coaching

50 educated medical employees representatives in on-line trainings on affected person rights

780 sufferers in webinar on Medvoice

144 sufferers in on-line and stationary awareness-raising classes

Total price range 2 360 000,00 PLN