The World Health Organization on the Ground — WHO, in collaboration with its partners, has opened a new modular primary health-care clinic in the Kharkiv region city of Tsyrkuny, replacing one destroyed in an attack earlier this year in the village of Lyptsi. This one replaces one of the clinics the agency established for internally displaced people to provide them with life-altering health services.
The newly built clinic has four rooms for patient examination, and will be staffed by five qualified health-care workers. The design is a practical solution in case of a power failure and will allow it to work in emergency mode, hence to continue rendering care services to the vulnerable populations. In total, with another modular clinic installed earlier in Tsyrkuny, two clinics are supposed to serve 12,000 patients every year.
According to Dr. Emanuele Bruni, the acting Health Emergency Programme Lead for WHO “When the previous modular clinic in Lyptsi was damaged, we responded very quickly.” Our team worked hard to ensure that the new facility was ready within two months.”
Dr. Jarno Habicht, WHO Representative and Head of the Country Office, briefed the need for such facilities: “WHO has been investing in modular primary health-care units over the past year to ensure that local communities get access to primary health-care services which is a basic human right.”
Among 18 modular units launched by WHO for deployment in the conflict-affected regions of Ukraine, the Tsyrkuny clinic would be one. Each unit is intended to take only 10 to 14 days to set up and will be used for a long time, with an anticipated lifespan in excess of 10 years. Clinics are sourced by the National Health Service of Ukraine, so there is always a possible sustainability in health care.
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