Mobile medical teams will provide primary medical care, as well as psychological support and social assistance to residents of the Narodytska, Slovechanska, and Olevska communities. As part of the project “Restoration of Access to Medical Services in the Communities of Zhytomyr Region,” three mobile medical teams consisting of a doctor, nurse, psychologist, and social worker will be created.
“Two-day training for future representatives of mobile medical teams has started today within a new project in Zhytomyr region, implemented by the NGO ‘In Touch Ukraine Foundation.’ The essence of the project is to restore medical services for residents of remote northern communities of the region. Mobile medical teams are being created, which, using their own transport, equipped with the necessary equipment and technology, will travel to the Narodytska, Slovechanska, and Olevska communities. Members of these teams will provide medical, psychological, and social services,” says project manager Margarita Siranchuk.
The project “Restoration of Access to Medical Services in the Communities of Zhytomyr Region,” implemented with the support of the USAID project “Innovations to Overcome the HIV Epidemic,” aims to help residents of communities receive medical and socio-psychological services.
The medical services that can be provided include:
- Blood sugar level analysis;
- Instrumental diagnostics, including electrocardiography, peak flowmetry/spirometry, otoscopy, ophthalmoscopy, and vision acuity measurement;
- Dynamic monitoring of women with uncomplicated pregnancies and (if necessary) referral to an obstetrician-gynecologist;
- Dynamic monitoring of the patient’s health using physical, laboratory, and instrumental examination methods in accordance with industry standards in healthcare;
- Diagnosis and treatment of the most common infectious and non-infectious diseases, injuries, poisonings, pathological and physiological conditions;
- Total cholesterol analysis;
- Rapid tests for pregnancy, troponin, HIV, viral hepatitis B and C;
- Ultrasound examination (USG);
- Provision of home medical care;
- Determination of blood oxygen levels, and more.
Social-psychological services may include:
- Provision of primary psychological assistance;
- Counseling and diagnosis of the patient’s psychological state, referral to a specialist;
- Identification of families, children, and youth in difficult life circumstances, as well as the elderly, disabled, and other socially vulnerable groups that require social support and the provision of social services;
- Organization of timely assistance to families, children, and youth through cooperation with the structural units of local state administrations and local self-government, educational and preschool institutions, healthcare institutions, law enforcement agencies, public associations, foundations, etc.
- Ensuring coordination and interaction of a family in difficult life circumstances, each of its members, with social work subjects until their problems are fully resolved, providing them with information and counseling services, and more.
“The first visits of mobile medical teams are scheduled for January. We will inform about it additionally so that people also have the opportunity to plan their time and use these services,” says Mobile Medical Teams coordinator Anastasiia Batriieva.
Reference: The project “Restoration of Access to Medical Services in the Communities of Zhytomyr Region” is implemented by the NGO “Non-Governmental Organization “In Touch Ukraine Foundation.” The project implementation period is 10 months.
