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The first participating community in the new project has signed a memorandum of cooperation with us.
We are pleased to announce that the Kramatorsk community has declared its intention to work on this initiative alongside us, and we would like to share a bit about them and their motivation to participate in the project.
The decision to join the project came from Family Medicine Center 1 in Kramatorsk—the only primary care center in the city.
Before the full-scale invasion, the Center served over 200,000 people. This is a significant burden, as primary care bears the main responsibility for patients with chronic and non-communicable diseases.
Currently, mental health issues are becoming increasingly prominent among patients—anxiety disorders, depression, PTSD—and the number of such patients is expected to rise. Alongside these disorders, non-communicable diseases—cardiovascular issues, diabetes, stroke, etc.—will also progress, adding to the already substantial financial burden on primary care. Therefore, we have decided to focus more on preventive measures, including through integrated care models.
Oleksandr Vlasenko, Director of Family Medicine Center 1, Kramatorsk
The doctors and specialists involved in the project expect that through training and mentorship from experts at the Kharkiv Expert Group for Health Reform Support and OptiMedis from Germany, effective models for managing patients with non-communicable diseases can be created, taking into account both medical and non-medical components.
This is an important step in our collaborative work to implement integrated care models at the local level.
We expect to learn how to measure the incidence of diseases in the community and to create indicators based on current data that will reflect the intervention process and management of such patients, as well as the quality of these interventions. It is also crucial for us to develop a patient management model for non-communicable diseases that includes both medical and non-medical components.
Oleksandr Vlasenko, Director of Family Medicine Center 1, Kramatorsk
