RMA assured: groundwater will not prevent construction of shelter for children's palliative care centre in Mykolaiv
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- Alona Kokhanchuk
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14:51, 11 November, 2025
The entrance to the shelter. Photo for flux from the archive NikVestiThe construction of a shelter for the Centre for Medical Rehabilitation and Palliative Care for Children in Mykolaiv will not be hindered by groundwater, and the chances of obtaining funding for the project are high.
Yurii Hranaturov, deputy head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, told NikVesti.
According to him, the project is being handled by the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Regional Military Administration, and a technical solution has already been found to avoid moisture problems.
«This (groundwater) would be a problem if we used the existing basement for the shelter. Because it cannot be deepened. But the designers have found a solution, and as soon as the project passes all the examinations, which is already at the end, they will be able to further deal with financing and build a separate shelter that will not have a problem with groundwater,» said Yurii Hranaturov.
He noted that the new shelter will be built similarly to those already under construction for the regional children's and adult hospitals and the hospital for veterans. They are being built separately from the main building.
«There will be special waterproofing, reinforcements, and everything will be done as it should be. We found such design solutions,» said Yurii Hranaturov.
The official added that Mykolaiv region has a high chance of receiving funding for the project, as it already has a successful experience of cooperation with the Ministry of Health.
«We have talked to the Minister of Health and his deputies more than once. When you have ready-made design and estimate documentation and all the necessary expertise, it is much easier to get funds from the state budget, especially when it comes to a childcare facility,» he added.
Earlier, NikVesti reported that Mykolaiv plans to build a shelter for patients and doctors of the Palliative Care Centre on Kurortna Street. The project is estimated at 99 million hryvnias, it is designed for 150 people and should provide an autonomous stay for two days.
This year, the commission of the RMA Health Department found that the existing basement of the medical facility was not suitable for sheltering children due to the natural conditions. Therefore, it was decided to build a new protective facility.
Human rights activist Inna Miroshnychenko, who took part in the inspection, showed the state of the hospital's shelter, a photo from her Instagram pageWhat the inspection of the Centre for Medical Rehabilitation and Palliative Care for Children showed
On 3 March 2025, it became known that the monitoring group of the Ombudsman's Office, together with NGOs, conducted an inspection of children's educational institutions in the 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.
Inna Miroshnychenko, an orphans' 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 showed the children tied to chairs, 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.
In May 2025, it became known that all the children in the Centre for Medical Rehabilitation and Palliative Care for Children in Mykolaiv had been moved to other institutions due to violations of their conditions.
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.
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