Kyiv City Council restored the historic name to the City Clinical Hospital No. 18

The Kyiv City Council supported restoring the historic name to Kyiv City Clinical Hospital No. 18 – from now on the medical institution will bear the name of Saint Volodymyr. Deputies adopted the corresponding decision today, 5 November, during a plenary session of the Kyiv City Council, reports “Glavcom” citing the Kyiv City State Administration (Kyiv City State Administration).

“It is important that this initiative was put forward by the hospital’s own workforce. And this will become another symbol of continuity and professional dignity,” said Volodymyr Prokopiv, Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration for the exercise of self-governing powers.

As noted by the Kyiv City State Administration’s Department of Health, the history of the Hospital of Saint Volodymyr begins in 1885, when faculty clinics of the University of Saint Volodymyr, now Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, were established in Kyiv.

It was the city’s first university hospital, where from the very beginning three important directions were combined:

medical education;

scientific research;

practical patient care.

Thus, the institution became one of the centers for the development of university medicine in Kyiv and made a significant contribution to the advancement of medical science and clinical practice.

The Kyiv City State Administration’s Department of Health states that today the Hospital of Saint Volodymyr continues this tradition, providing round-the-clock medical care to civilians and service members. The facility’s structure includes surgical departments, intensive care and resuscitation units, a stroke center, palliative care units, oncology, gynecology, and physical and rehabilitation medicine.

Recall that a multidisciplinary team of doctors at Kyiv City Clinical Hospital No. 1 for the first time in Ukraine’s history successfully performed a simultaneous heart and liver transplantation on a patient. The operation lasted about 15 hours. It was performed on a 44-year-old Kyiv resident with severe heart and liver diseases. Back in 2018 he had been added to the waiting list for combined transplantation in Minsk, but he did not receive the necessary help.