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The healthcare practitioners of Sumy, including the representatives of the Medical Institute of Sumy State University, took part in a series of webinars dedicated to the support system for hospitals “HELPMED.IN.UA”.
The second wave of the pandemic is spreading across Europe and Ukraine. We know how to counteract its spread by maintaining social distance and the use of means of personal protection, however, the main question is how to help hospitals and doctors to cope with maximum loads, provide them with everything necessary to save the patients’ lives.
In such situations, convenient innovative technological solutions should be used in combination with the close cooperation of civil society, medical institutions, and entrepreneurs.
The successful experience of creating the "Cooperation Platform" became the basis of the project initiative “HELPMED.IN.UA”, which was launched by the University of Economics in Poznan (Poland) together with the Public Association “Hi-Tech Office Ukraine”.
This small but important Ukrainian-Polish hospital support project in Ukraine started in July this year.
The system http://helpmed.in.ua/ allows hospitals to inform about their needs and provide the necessary products from donors through the network of local coordinators.
The project is funded by the Polish “Challenge” Foundation, together with the UNDP program in Europe and Central Asia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland.
Each project participant has a role:
The hospital generates a list of needs according to the needs’ classifier built into the platform. These can be personal protective means, antiseptics, small medical equipment, and materials, even the supply of drinking water and food for patients. This data is immediately available in the system for coordinators and displayed on an electronic card.
Donors (citizens or enterprises) who are located in this city/district/region, register in the system, and confirm their readiness to provide hospitals with what they need.
Coordinators (specially trained volunteers or community organizations which deal with hospitals, also registered in the system) contact donors and hospitals, register the aid in the system, distribute it among hospitals, provide delivery and transfer to hospitals.
Thus, the system relieves doctors from economic matters and significantly strengthens the capacity of hospitals to treat patients and provide them with everything they need.
This project is an example of the fact that digital technologies, international cooperation, and interaction of the civil, public, and private sectors create space for an effective response to even such powerful challenges as the COVID-19 pandemic.