CCCF CONTINUES TO SUPPORT DR. KURILETS
Last November 2009 CCCF, as part of its 20th anniversary celebration, showcased the internationally acclaimed documentary film “The English Surgeon”. Many of you attended the showing to demonstrate your support of our organization’s activities and will remember the two protagonists/neurosurgeons Drs. Henry Marsh and Ihor Kurilets.
At the showings Dr. Kurilets described the medical clinic he had set up in Kyiv with the help of Henry Marsh, to perform neurosurgical interventions according to western European methods and standards in Ukraine. During this past year Dr. Kurilets has set up a satellite clinic/operating centre in Stryj in western Ukraine so that patients from this part of Ukraine would not have to travel so far for treatment.
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MEDICAL TRIP TO UKRAINE
In May 2010 five members of the Medical Advisory Committee had the privilege of traveling to Ukraine. Their purpose was to verify the hospitals’ use of supplies and medical equipment provided to them from Canada and to assess their further needs for medical equipment and education. In addition, due to a generous bequest by Ivan Maksym, CCCF was able to purchase ambulances for three key hospitals that we support, so we had the opportunity to “formally” present the ambulances. The CCCF-donated ambulances were named “Maksym” in recognition of this bequest.
Our route took us to about 15 small regional hospitals (rayonni likarni) which serve the Chornobyl zones or Chornobyl affected population. We traveled from Kyiv to 35 km of Chornobyl itself, to a town called Ivankiv, then through towns in Zhytomyrshchyna, west across the Volyn region (oblast), south to the Ternopil region and finally Lviv.