Doctors at Mykolaiv Maternity Hospital №3 have not been paid more than ₴3 million in November salaries

Doctors at Mykolaiv Maternity Hospital No. 3 have not yet been paid their salaries for November, photo from open sources

Doctors at Mykolaiv maternity hospital №3 have not yet received their salaries for November.

This was stated by Viktoriia Sadovska, Deputy Head of the Health Department of the Mykolaiv City Council for Financial and Economic Affairs, during a meeting of the Commission on Housing and Communal Services, NikVesti reports.

According to her, doctors are owed more than 3 million hryvnias.

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«Today, there is a debt for November of about 3 million hryvnias. There is a delay only for November, the advance payment was made in a small amount. Even the funds from the NHSU (National Health Service of Ukraine) will not cover this debt, so it continues,» said Viktoriia Sadovska.

Healthcare reform is being discussed in Mykolaiv: what is known

Recently, the mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkevych, and the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, Vitalii Kim, discussed what a capable network of healthcare facilities should look like. The meeting addressed the issue of merging hospitals and transferring maternity hospital №3 to the regional municipal property.

According to Iryna Shamrai, Head of the Mykolaiv Health Department, the meeting took place on 23 October. In addition to the heads of the region and the city, the meeting was attended by specialised deputies and heads of health departments. It was agreed that a capable hospital network would have three cluster institutions — hospitals №3, №4, №5.

• Hospital №5 (director Olena Terentieva), located in Korabelnyi district, is not planned to be reformed.
• City hospital №4 (director Larysa Derhunova) is to be merged with hospital №1 (director Mariia Hrachova, city council member from the party «Proposal») and the Emergency Medical Care Hospital (EMC) (director Oleksandr Demianov).
• The city children's hospital №2 (director Yurii Diachuk) is planned to be merged with hospital №3 (Dubky) (director Liubov Savchuk).

However, maternity hospital №3 (director Oleh Ishchenko) in the Namyv district, which was previously supposed to be merged with hospital № 3, is now to be transferred from Mykolaiv city ownership to regional communal ownership.

Hanna Nord, the head of the healthcare commission of the Mykolaiv City Council, had many questions about the transfer of maternity hospital №3. She noted that the programme for the development and support of municipal institutions included 19 million hryvnias for maternity hospital №3. But why allocate funds if it will be transferred to the regional ownership?

In turn, Iryna Shamrai, head of Mykolaiv's healthcare department, assured that there would be no problems.

Later, it became known that maternity hospital №3 in the Namyv neighbourhood was to be merged with the Mykolaiv Regional Clinical Hospital due to a decline in the birth rate in the region.

As it is known, the issue of reorganising hospitals has already been twice voted down by the deputies at the city council sessions. On 29 May, the deputies unanimously withdrew the issue of merging the city's medical institutions from the session's consideration, as it had not passed the relevant and other commissions.

After that, on 8 June, the deputies again considered the issue of reorganising municipal medical institutions. However, the decision did not receive the required number of votes.