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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ТРАВЕНЬ 2016 WWW.UNWLA.ORG 7 THE UNWLA AND THE PATRIOT DEFENCE WORKING TOGETHER IN UKRAINE by Ivanka Olesnycky, New Jersey Regional Council Social Welfare Chair Dr. W. Blake Vanderlin lecturing at the "Ukrainian Trauma Life Support" course at the Kyiv City Clinical Hospital No. 17. The UNWLA maintains an ongoing commitment to support its own or- ganizational social wel- fare initiatives as well as those of other nonprofit organizations that are most closely aligned with us and share our mission “to provide as- sistance to people in Ukraine stricken by nat- ural disasters and emer- gencies.” In accordance with this premise, the UNWLA and Patriot Defence (PD), an organization headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine, have partnered in a recently announced training program called Ukrainian Trauma Life Sup- port (UTLS). This new and unique training program follows closely on the heels of the very successful PD program that was also called Ukrainian Trauma Life Support, which provided training to the military. The earlier UTLS program, which provided post trauma diagnostics and care training for almost 100 mil- itary doctors, Border Guard and National Guard doctors, as well as for some civilians has now come to a close. PD’s new training program, which was launched on April 8, 2016, continues to focus on trauma treatment and care, but its endeavors are focused only on the civilian sector. PD’s new mission is “Chang- ing Ukraine’s Medical System One Hospital at a Time.” The goal is to “provide a systematic approach to the rapid assessment and initial management of the trauma patient with life threatening signs and symp- toms” in hospitals. The first in-hospital course is currently training a group of 24 doctors, most of them from the Ky- iv 17 th Clinical Hospital, where this training is being held. The intensive six-day course is intended to en- hance the doctors’ expertise with trauma patients by utilizing Western standards and best practices, along with practical hands on skills and improved performance that is enabled and enhanced by more effective communications and better teamwork. Funding for this training has been provided by the UN- WLA, and the training has provided an ideal scenario for the two organizations to work together in Ukraine. This training course, which will be duplicated in other hospitals throughout Ukraine, one course per month, addresses an area of medical treatment that PD believes can be greatly improved. The medical system of Ukraine is in great need of modernization, and standardization of care and implemen- tation of current Western standards of practice will lead to improvement in patient care and saving lives. Patriot Defence proposes changing the Ukrainian medical system one hospital at a time, by training en- tire emergency response teams at Ukranian hospitals in UTLS courses. Each individual in that hospital then becomes an agent of change, multiplying the effect on the system.
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