Mykolaiv Regional Council Plans to Establish Uniform Requirements for Bonuses for Heads of Medical Institutions
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- Alona Kokhanchuk
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13:17, 25 September, 2025
The Mykolaiv City Council plans to approve uniform requirements for bonuses for the heads of regional medical institutions. Photo for illustration from Getty imagesThe Mykolaiv Regional Council plans to approve a unified approach to bonuses for the heads of regional healthcare facilities.
This was discussed at a meeting of the Mykolaiv Regional Council's Commission on Science and Education, Innovation, Youth, Family and Sports, Culture and Spirituality, NikVesti reports.
Tetiana Labartkava, manager of the executive office of the regional council, noted that bonuses are currently included in the contracts of heads of medical institutions on a case-by-case basis. The new regulation will introduce a unified approach to bonuses, which will depend on the performance of medical institutions.
«In order to define unified approaches to bonuses, namely, to specify differentiated performance indicators, it is proposed to approve the bonus regulation, which defines the performance indicators for which bonuses are subsequently paid. The indicators are divided into current and strategic ones. This means that bonuses can be paid quarterly and annually. This became the basis for the development of the draft regulations to differentiate between current and final indicators», she said.
Labartkava also added that the bonus indicators will be determined based on the results of reports from medical institutions and the Mykolaiv Regional Health Insurance Agency.
The list of institutions to which the regulation will apply includes: Mykolaiv Regional Clinical Hospital, Mykolaiv Regional Children's Clinical Hospital, Mykolaiv Regional Mental Health Centre, Mykolaiv Regional Oncology Centre, Mykolaiv Regional Emergency and Disaster Medicine Centre, Mykolaiv Regional Information and Analytical Centre for Medical Statistics.
As a reminder, the Vitovskyi District Court rejected the request of the Mykolaiv Regional Children's Clinical Hospital to return the seized medical records of patients. The documents were seized as part of an investigation into the alleged misappropriation or embezzlement of over 20 million hryvnias of budget funds.
Scandal in the reorganised Children's Home in Mykolaiv
On 3 March, it was reported that the monitoring group of the Ombudsman's Office, together with NGOs, inspected children's educational institutions in Mykolaiv region and found gross violations of children's rights. The children were fixed with belts to chairs and strollers, and a six-month-old baby suffered swelling from «tying». In other institutions, children were given expired medicines, did not receive medical care and had limited access to basic services.
On the same day, Inna Miroshnychenko, an orphan rights activist and lawyer, showed the conditions in which children live in the reorganised Centre for Medical Rehabilitation and Palliative Care in Mykolaiv (Regional Children's Home). She actually showed the children tied to armchairs, who are not allowed to go for walks and are forced to spend time watching TV.
The human rights activist said that according to the conditions, 89 staff members are supposed to take care of the children. However, as it turned out from the data of the Ombudsman's Office monitoring group, only two employees were looking after the children. She called the conditions in which the children were kept inhumane.
At the same time, none of the officials and deputies of the Mykolaiv region commented on the situation. Although the editorial board of NikVesti tried to get a comment on the situation from representatives of the local authorities.
However, the scandal was commented on by the mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkevych. The mayor added that although the city is not directly involved in the institution, the issue is already under the control of the regional council. He also reminded that the city has a Children's Service that actively deals with adoption and guardianship issues and supports family-type orphanages.
In addition, the Health Department of Mykolaiv Regional State Administration said it had set up a special commission to check the actions of the staff of the reorganised Centre for Medical Rehabilitation and Palliative Care after the Ombudsman's Office published a report on violations of children's rights.
It should be noted that in April 2024, the Centre for Medical Rehabilitation and Palliative Care was merged with the Mykolaiv Regional Children's Hospital. At the time, this decision was explained by the need to «protect» the institution from lack of funding.
We would also like to remind you that this is not the first scandalous case involving the Mykolaiv Oblast Children's Hospital. Back in July 2023, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the hospital was in poor condition during his visit to Mykolaiv.
In one of the wards, Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that the room was not adapted for a comfortable stay. In particular, the ward lacked curtain rods, curtains, and air conditioning.
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