THE PROBLEM OF PALLIATIVE CARE IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the relevance of the topic of palliative care in Ukraine at the present stage. In article definition of the concept of "palliative aid", the questions of the relevance of palliative care and palliative medicine on the modern stage of development of the companies and analyzed the problems of palliative care in modern Ukraine. Palliative care is defined as activities aimed at maintaining the quality of life of terminally ill persons and their next of kin in a situation threatening patient's life by facilitating his physical and psychological suffering. We also consider the question of the relevance of palliative care in modern Ukraine. According to the study of the problem, the urgency is due to the undeniable fact that incurable serious illness, of course, accompanied by physical pain and emotional suffering, which is why the question arises about the need for palliative care for seriously ill designed to alleviate such suffering of the patient. Considerable attention is paid to the existing problems in the provision of palliative care in Ukraine today. The state of palliative care, identified the main problems, including the lack of training of palliative medicine, limited access to medicines, in particular painkillers, an insufficient number of specialized agencies, which should provide palliative care, lack of service provision at home; only a very active and persistent people manage to get the list of services declared by the government; low level of trust of patients to physicians, medical staff, and poor evaluation of the quality of their work; low level access to the full scope of anesthesia for patients served by home visiting teams; access to palliative care for HIV-infected people in terminal stage is limited; difficult situation with obtaining adequate palliative care for people with disabilities. The article also positive steps for our country to establish a regulatory framework, based on which the provision of palliative care.