Health Care Program

The UFA Health Care committee focuses of improving the quality of health care in Ukraine and assisting in the treatment of ill patients from Ukraine who require hospitalization and special medical procedures that are available for them only in the United States. The committee assists in the distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment from the United States to carefully selected health care facilities in Ukraine, and in the training of health care providers in the use of new equipment. It has also helped quite a few patients from Ukraine with special medical needs, particularly young children, to receive treatment in the US and to be accompanied by parents and/or close family members. The UFA Health Care Committee traces its activities on behalf of public health in Ukraine to the pioneering project in which the huge transport plane Mria was loaded at Philadelphia International Airport with donated medicines and medical equipment for use by health providers in Ukraine.

Ongoing projects include:

1. Health care project in Ukraine called “Life Line”. It is a comprehensive, integrated infrastructure and health care reform plan. This project is a 5-year commitment to people of Ukraine between the Ukrainian Federation of America, the First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko, the International Fund Ukraine 3000, and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

2. Emergency health care for visitors from Ukraine to the the USA.

3. Cooperation with Ukrainian Embassy in Washington DC for medication requests and health care for visiting officials or their families.

4. Emergency preparedness programs. Mobilizing medical experts and supplies to provide immediate assistance in case of disasters or catastrophe in Ukraine.

5. Treatment in the USA of Ukrainian children with complicated illnesses.

6. Help to Ukrainian physicians who recently immigrated to USA in obtaining jobs and preparing for equivalency boards.

7. Medication programs for patients in Ukraine.

(Updated 11/11/2009)