Volyn Regional Children's Territorial Medical Center

The Volyn Regional Children's Territorial Medical Center (VRCTMC) is a treatment-and-diagnostic and methodological center rendering specialized medical help to the children of the Volyn Region.

The Center includes Regional Children's Clinical Hospital for 390 patients (opened in 1987) with its Neonatologic Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Regional Children's Consultative Out-patient Clinic for 300 visits a day, and Sanatorium for Children with Parents "Dachny" for 100 patients including rehabilitation facility for children with neural system lesions and invalid-children.

The VRCTMC staff numbers 998 persons; 144 physicians and 434 nurses and nurse's aides are among them.

Annually the Center ensures medical treatment to more than 15,000 in-patients of 23 different profiles, about 65,000 children receive specialized consultative help in the Regional Children's Consultative Out-patient Clinic. There are 26 treatment-and-diagnostic departments and services, schools for children with diabetes and bronchial asthma, and training facility for young mothers working effectively in the VRCTMC.

The Regional Center of Family Planning and Human Reproduction carries out counseling of patients and families as to inheritance prognosis, prenatal diagnosis of birth defects and chromosomal diseases, mass screening of newborns for phenilketonuria (PKU) and other hereditary diseases (in addition to the Volyn Region screening is being done for Rivne, Zhytomyr, Ternopil, and Vinnytsia regions), and care and follow-up of patients with hereditary diseases. There is a functioning registration system of birth defects in all delivery hospitals of the region. The laboratory services have equipment in accordance with all requirements: modern biochemical, immunological, bacteriological analysers, flow cytometer, and equipment for PCR diagnosis.

Equipment of NICU with modern machinery for transportation and fostering of newborns, introduction of contemporary scientific technologies, professionalism of medical staff allowed to reduce significantly the indices of infant mortality, early childhood mortality, and to increase the survival rate of very prematurely born children.

The Volyn Regional Children's Territorial Medical Center is a center rendering specialized surgical help to Volyn children. Here they try to solve problems of early diagnosis of birth defects in newborns and their surgical correction. The number of surgical interventions on urinary tracts, auditory, ocular and abdomen organs is increasing. Non-traumatic microscopic and laparoscopic surgeries are being implemented

Every year nearly 1,500 children undertake rehabilitation therapy in the medical and social rehabilitation center at the "Dachne" sanatorium. Because of the specificity of rendering medical help to children with central nervous system lesions, the rehabilitation center, in addition to its regular medical staff has psychologists, speech therapists, educators-defectologists, rehabilitologists. The most contemporary methods of rehabilitation therapy are being introduced into practice.

The Volyn Regional Children's Territorial Medical Center takes part in international programs:

During 1999-2002 screening of thyroid cancer in children from radiation polluted areas was conducted (in accordance with international agreement "About cooperation between governments of Ukraine and USA in the field of screening of cancer and other diseases of thyroid gland in Ukraine after the Chornobyl catastrophe");
The birth defects monitoring in children was started in 2000 and is now being continued in partneship with the OMNI-Net Ukraine Birth Defects Prevention Program after the completion of the Ukrainian-American Birth Defects Program;development of the Registry of all newborns is also being continued;
Integrated Health Technology Package Project was implemented in the institution within the Ukrainian-Swiss Perinatal Health Program.

Presence in the center of modern computer equipment, access to Internet allows performing distance education and taking part in telemedical cinsultations.

Since 1992 the Volyn Pediatric Department of D. Halytsky Lviv Medical University of Post Diploma Education works in the Regional Children's Clinical Hospital.

On April 15, 1999 the Regional Center of Child Endocrynology was opened at the Volyn Regional Children's Territorial Medical Center.

In 2000 the creation of the Centralized Department of Clinical Microbiology was finished. Now a wide range of tests is carried out in the laboratory of medical genetics, immunology, endocrynology and genetic biochemistry.

In 2005 we opened Laparoscopy Diagnosis and Treatment Department and Eye Microsurgery Center having contemporary equipment and techniques.

In November 2009 the Regional Children's Oncohematological Center with modern laboratory was opened in the hospital.

Among actual problems of improvement of child medical care in the region is creation of the Volyn Perinatal Center, implementation of contemporary achievements of medical science and energy-saving technologies, futher strengthening of material and technical basis of the structural subdivisions and constant educational of personnel.