City Children's Hospital No. 2 to receive equipment for TB and HIV diagnostics

City hospital No. 2. Photo: city council

City Children's Hospital №2 will receive modern equipment for the diagnosis of tuberculosis and HIV.

The relevant decision was made at a session of the Mykolaiv City Council on 8 July, according to NikVesti.

The list includes a Gene Xpert GXIV-4-L real-time PCR system and an APC uninterruptible power supply. The value of the transferred property is over 482 thousand hryvnias.

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This equipment will allow the hospital to diagnose tuberculosis and HIV in children on its own. The decision to transfer the equipment was made by the regional council on 3 July.

As a reminder, Mykolaiv plans to build a new diagnostic centre on the premises of the city's Children's Hospital №2 at 5 Riumina Street. Local authorities are looking for a donor to finance the work.

The director of Children's Hospital №2, Liubov Savchuk, explained that the construction of such a centre would allow all specialised doctors to be concentrated in one building, which would be convenient for medical examinations of children in particular.

Children's diagnostic centre in Mykolaiv

In March 2023, Iryna Shamrai, head of the city council's healthcare department, announced plans to build a modern children's diagnostic centre and a bomb shelter with an underground passage to the hospital. According to her, the facility will be open from 8am to 8pm.

And in April, the working group on the development of the Comprehensive Recovery Programme for Mykolaiv considered proposals for the reconstruction of the city submitted by the city council's health department. Among them was a modern diagnostic centre for children.

Later, the head of the city council's health department, Iryna Shamrai, said that the creation of a children's diagnostic centre was now approaching the project development stage.

«It is planned to build a bomb shelter with a transition to the main inpatient building, three floors of the diagnostic centre's superstructure. It will be a polyclinic children's department. This way, one institution, the regional children's hospital, will be at one end of the city, and the other institution will be here. This way we will cover the entire child population. If a routine medical examination is required, we concentrate everything in one city to make it convenient for both parents and young patients», the head of the department said at the time.

At the same time, we would like to inform you that a building in the Central District of Mykolaiv will be demolished to make way for a new medical complex near Children's Hospital №2. The decision to write off the non-residential premises at 7/7 Admiral Makarov Street, which was built in 1976, was made on the basis of an expert opinion that the premises were unsuitable for further use.