The corresponding agreement was signed by Yuriy Bobalo, Rector of the University, and Nataliya Ivanchenko, Director General of the state institution Lviv Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the chief state sanitary doctor of the Lviv region. Mariia Ozirkovska, Deputy Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Lviv region, and Roman Korzh, Vice-Rector for Education and Social Development, Lviv Polytechnic, and Stanislav Rachkevych, leading specialist at the International Integration Centre for Professional Partnerships took part in the meeting.
The agreement on cooperation between Lviv Polytechnic National University and state institution Lviv Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine provides for a number of measures to shape the public health of Polytechnicians, especially students. One of them is the establishment of the Public Health Center on the basis of the student clinic at Lviv Polytechnic.
As Stanislav Rachkevych commented, new modern medical equipment will be installed in the Public Health Center and the possibilities of conducting in-depth preventive medical examinations and providing high-quality medical care will be expanded. Researchers from relevant Departments of the University, as well as students, in particular future social workers, sociologists who are studying the social medicine course, will be involved in cooperation.
– We will be one of the first in Ukraine among educational institutions, which will take care of the prevention of diseases of students and employees and their timely detection, as well as will encourage an active healthy lifestyle, emphasizes Mr. Rachkevych.
According to Nataliia Ivanchenko, this ambitious goal will be implemented thanks to the consolidated efforts of interested parties to ensure that people, in particular, student youth, take responsibility for their health and, as a result, be healthier and live longer.
The participants of the meeting are unanimously convinced that this agreement is very important, because it is about improving public health at Lviv Polytechnic, where almost 35,000 students study, not including ten colleges, and 6,000 employees.
