The work of Scientific & Practical Conference with International Participation “Problems of Cardiovascular Pathology in the Focus of Clinicians and Specialists in Laboratory Medicine”, organized by Association of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine of Ukraine (hereinafter – ACCLMU), P.L. Shupik’s National Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education, Technical Committee for Standardization 166 “Clinical laboratory studies and systems for in vitro diagnostics”, and Ukrainian Society for Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics, with the assistance of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, was finished. The Conference was held during April 25-26, 2017, within the framework of the VIII International Medical Forum “Innovations in Medicine – Health of the Nation” at the Exhibition Center “KyivExpoPlaza”.
More than 900 experts in the field of laboratory diagnostics from all regions of Ukraine, including the Chief Freelance Regional Experts in Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics, members of the ACCLMU, and teachers of the departments of clinical laboratory diagnostics of higher medical schools took part in the work of the Conference. Among the foreign guests of the Conference were leading experts from Belarus, Poland and Hungary. At the Conference, reports were presented on new laboratory methods and the introduction of new laboratory technologies in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease.
Within the framework of the Conference, a round table “Actual problems of the laboratory service in the conditions of reformation of the health care system in Ukraine” was held, participated by the People’s Deputy, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Healthcare Sysoenko I.V., Rector of the P.L. Shupik’s NMAPE, Acad., Prof. Voronenko Yu.V., Dean of the Faculty of Continuing Medical Education of the P.L. Shupik’s NMAPE, Assoc. Prof. Babintseva L.Yu., Deputy Director – Head of the Department for the Organization of Medical Care at the Department of Health of Kyiv Regional State Administration Ginzburg V.G., and the Chief Specialist of the Medical Department of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine Inginova K.O., as well as experts from different regions of Ukraine, actively joined in the discussion. During the work of the round table, topical issues concerning formation of joint platform of action and consolidation of efforts in each region of the country in the conditions of reformation of the healthcare system were discussed, and a resolution was adopted with the most important positions of the medical laboratory community on the interconnection of world trends in the centralization of clinical laboratory research with the progress of medical reform in Ukraine. In particular, the important role of profile professional public associations in the creation of a national regulatory framework in accordance with European requirements was stressed. Also, attention was paid to the changes in the public health system, as well as to the formation of hospital districts.
Also, within the framework of the Conference, a meeting of the ACCLMU Board was held, at which the drafts of updated documents concerning membership in the Association were discussed, and information was provided on the progress in joining the Ukrainian Society for Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics to the ACCLMU.
