Interfax-Ukraine to host roundtable discussion 'One in Three: How Ukrainian Nurse Lives and Works. Presentation of Study'
On Monday, May 12, at 14:00, the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency will host a roundtable discussion on International Nurses' Day titled "One in Three: How Ukrainian Nurse Lives and Works. Presentation of Study."
The results of a large-scale study on working conditions, workload, pay, and legal protection of Ukrainian nurses will be presented. Participants will talk about staff overload in hospitals and the lack of a standard for the number of patients per nurse, work in combat zones and difficult conditions, emotional burnout and low wages, legal vacuum in the protection of medical workers.
Participants include Head of the Council of the NGO medical movement "Be Like Us" Oksana Slobodiana, authors of the study Oksana Dutchak, Olena Tkalych and Natalia Lomonosova, lawyers, human rights activists Roksolana Lemyk and Vitaliy Dudin (to be confirmed), nurse in the combat zone Hanna Zhadan; emergency nurse Olena Steshenko; education nurse Tetiana Hnativ, activist of the NGO medical movement "Be Like Us", X-ray technician Antonina Shatsylo, practicing nurses from different regions of Ukraine, activists of the NGO medical movement "Be Like Us" Ruslana Mazurenok, Olha Lysyvets, Larysa Matrashak. The Moderator will be Manager of the NGO medical movement "Be Like Us" Yulia Lypych-Kochyrka (8/5a Reitarska Street).
The broadcast will be available on the YouTube channel of the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
Admission requires registration on the spot with press ID cards. Details by phone: (097) 484 6496.