Region receives funds from the World Bank to fight cancer
Region will receive $ 10 million under the state loan from the World Bank program on prevention, early diagnosis and treatment efficacy of cervical cancer and breast cancer in women. Funding for the program will start from June 1, 2015. Photo: minfin.com.ua This March 10 at a press conference, Deputy Director of the Department of Health ’ I Orest Lviv Regional State Administration Wednesday. As reported Wednesday, as part of co-financing of the World Bank approved in Lviv Oblast « Program fight cancer in Lviv region by 2016 » $ 105 million. The program is supported by the World Bank on early diagnosis of cervical cancer and breast cancer is designed for two years. &Laquo; expected another seminar with the World Bank in late March. Then it will be known as the money will come. Funding should begin from June 1 & raquo ;, – O.Sereda reported. ByHe said the World Bank loan plan to spend on the purchase of modern equipment, software and training. If successful project implementation, Region can count on additional funds from the World Bank. As the chief doctor of the Lviv Regional Medical Diagnostic Clinical Oncology isntru Igor Kovalchuk, the previously detected abnormality of the cervix and breast, the faster and cheaper costs of treatment. Therefore, a project supported by the World Bank aimed at early detection of disease. Help. The project « Onkoproventsiya and implementation of effective anticancer technologies in Lviv in restructuring the systemHealth topics ’ I & raquo ;, three screening centers in the area – in Drohobych Chervonograde and Sambor and regional screening center at the Lviv Regional State medical diagnostic Cancer Center will purchase modern equipment. The employees of these institutions will be appropriate toeducation. For screening centers in Drohobych Chervonograde and Sambor be purchased screening mammography, Colposcopes, ultrasound machines, and introduced an electronic registry population. In Lviv State Regional Diagnostic Cancer Center is planned to install a new generation of diagnostic equipment (modern MRI machine, Bahatozrizovyy apparatus CT, mammography with the possibility of 3-D-tomosyntezu, stsyntihrafichne equipment SPECT-CT, ultrasound diagnostic system mammographic dense cases, digital diagnostic equipment, technology introduced liquid cytology); medical equipment for operating and monitoring patients (operating tables, operating lights, Moniing system, anesthesia machines, equipment videolaparoscopic etc.).Source: http://artlife.rv.ua/