{"id":70945,"date":"2017-04-13T14:53:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=55208"},"modified":"2017-04-19T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T11:44:36","slug":"55208-kampaniya-znimajrozheviokulyari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/55208-kampaniya-znimajrozheviokulyari","title":{"rendered":"Information campaign to raise awareness on access to painkillers in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

WATCH IN ENGLISH<\/a><\/p>\n

Activists launch campaign aimed at raising public awareness on access to painkillers for palliative care patients. Both bottlenecks and solutions are at the local level.<\/em><\/p>\n

Activists launched the awareness campaign #\u0417\u043d\u0456\u043c\u0430\u0439\u0420\u043e\u0436\u0435\u0432\u0456\u041e\u043a\u0443\u043b\u044f\u0440\u0438 \u2013 Take Off Your Rose-Colored Glasses. Its aim is to present the actual situation with the access palliative care patients have to painkillers. Official data usually says that all such patients have the access, they are provided with the necessary amount of medicine while the doctors are using correct treatment protocols. The actual state of play is different though. It was stated by Kseniia Shapoval, Manager of the Public Health Program Initiative of the International Renaissance Foundation speaking at a press-briefing at Ukraine Crisis Media Center. \u201cIn Ukraine 500 thousand patients annually require palliative care. Seventeen and a half thousand of them are children, they are lacking the special form of morphine. Provision with painkillers depends on regional-level healthcare departments and on the doctors,\u201d Shapoval said. \u201cIn Dnipro for example out of the 11 primary health care centers there\u2019s only one that supplies adequate painkillers. It means that there\u2019s just one clinic in which the doctors are aware of the protocols used to treat the pain and of the pain evaluation scale, the clinic where seriously ill patients may receive prescriptions that offer discounts and painkillers are applied in a correct way,\u201d the Public Health Program Initiative Manager said.<\/p>\n

The worst situation is observed in Kyiv. Medics are using outdated legislation, it has a negative impact on patients. \u201cMedics are still using outdated practices and legislation. Since 2013 the decision of one doctor is being considered sufficient to prescribe painkillers. However Kyiv has been using a commission to make such prescriptions even though this requirement has been suspended. Morphine injections are not being prescribed. There is a myth saying that ampoules require a different form of control. Patients entitled to free medicine supply often cannot get it. Their families have thus to purchase it at their own cost,\u201d Shapoval said.<\/p>\n

According to the World Health Organization if painkillers are applied correctly the patient may completely get rid of the pain and achieve the normal quality of life. \u201cIn Ukraine five to 14 per cent of patients have achieved the state of life without pain. They have not managed to get rid of pain sensations completely, however in comparison to other people their state is acceptable. If asked the chief medic at a clinic whether all the patients are provided with painkillers, they would say \u2018yes certainly\u2019. In Ukraine\u2019s information space it\u2019s easy to put this problem out of the public eyesight,\u201d said Andriy Rokhanskyi, director of the NGO Institute of Legal Research and Strategies.<\/p>\n

Outdated methods of treatment and resistance to the new protocols are frequent exactly at the local level. It\u2019s at the local level that management of medical institutions does not let the doctors work based on the new standards. \u201cMedics at local level are ready to work based on the new standards but their managers will not let them. The fear and the rigid way of thinking leads to the situation when the doctor fearing to get fired does not stick to the rules,\u201d said Oleksandra Bratsiun, advisor to the acting Healthcare Minister of Ukraine on palliative care.<\/p>\n

In case painkillers are denied to the patient, experts advise to insist that their rights are preserved and file complaints to the chief medic with a copy to the local state healthcare office, the Healthcare Ministry and the Ombudsman on human rights. As a rule, the issue is resolved at the level of the chief medic.<\/p>\n

More information on palliative care in Ukraine is available from the Facebook page<\/a> as well as during the public events in Sumy on April 19 and in Rivne on April 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WATCH IN ENGLISH Activists launch campaign aimed at raising public awareness on access to painkillers for palliative care patients. Both bottlenecks and solutions are at the local level. Activists launched the awareness campaign #\u0417\u043d\u0456\u043c\u0430\u0439\u0420\u043e\u0436\u0435\u0432\u0456\u041e\u043a\u0443\u043b\u044f\u0440\u0438 \u2013 Take Off Your Rose-Colored Glasses. 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