ANNOUNCEMENT
ON 5-8 MAY, 2011 IN LVIV (UKRAINE ) THE FIRST ON THE CIS TERRITORY
On 5 May, 2011 at 10 a.m. in the premises of Lviv Regional Counsel (Vynnychenko str. 18) the ceremony of the festive opening of the 13-th Congress of European Association of ostomy patients (European Ostomy Association, http://www.ostomyeurope.org/) will take place. The representatives from 37 countries, which are the members of European Ostomy Association, will participate in the Congress. For the first time ever European Congress will be held on the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States
The chief of Lviv Regional Counsel Oleg Pankevych, the head of the coloproctology course Yuriy Lozynskiy (docent, doctor), President of European Ostomy Association Arne H. Holte, president of NGO “Astom-Ukraine” Petro Rosolovskiy will participate in the ceremony.
The 13th Congress of the European Ostomy Association (European Ostomy Association) will continue its work 5 May at 11:30 a.m. in the conference-hall of the hotel “Hetman” (50 Volodymyra Velykogo str.).
Congress will last for three days (5-8 May), during which dozens of plenary sessions, lectures, official meetings and informal contacts will be held with the participation of: the chief coloproctologist of the Ministry of health of Ukraine M.Zakharash (prof., doc.), representative of the health protection administration O.Sereda, rector of National Lviv Medical University named after Danylo Galytskiy M.Pavloskiy (prof., doc.), chief doctor of Lviv regional hospital Hychka M.M. and also others.
To download the 13-th Congress of European Ostomy Association program (European Ostomy Association) is possible by visiting the following link: http://ostomyeurope.org/Congress%202011/congress%20programme%20Lviv.pdf
BRIEFING
NGO “Astom-Ukraine”, which is a member of European Ostomy Association, started its activity in 2000. NGO “Astom Ukraine Odessa , Rivne, Ternopil, Kherson , Khmelnytskiy, Cherkassy
For the last 11 years of work the contacts with other world organizations, which address the issues of ostomy patients, were settled. Tight cooperation united NGO “Astom-Ukraine” and German association Deutsche ILCO and NGO “Active Help to Ukraine
In 2004 NGO “Astom-Ukraine” hold the 1-st All-Ukrainian congress of the ostomy patients. In 2008 the 2-nd All-Ukrainian congress of ostomy patients was held.
In 2006 NGO “Astom-Ukraine” received the status of the European Ostomy Association member. Since 2007 NGO “Astom-Ukraine” is a member of the International Ostomy Association (International Ostomy Association, http://www.ostomyinternational.org/).
European Ostomy Association (European Ostomy Association, http://www.ostomyeurope.org/) numbers 37 members: Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Great Britain, Denmark, Estonia, Egypt, Israel, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Nederland, Germany, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Ukraine, Finland, France, Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden.
MEDICAL INFORMATION
Ostomy patients – are the patients with complicated colon diseases, which are caused by oncologic illnesses (more then 90% of all cases), non-specific ulcerative colitis, Crone disease or other bad pathology. Surgeons, in order to rescue the life of the patients, must exteriorize the open colon end onto the abdominal wall and the artificial opening is to be created, which is called stoma.
As a result of such an operation, the colon contents cannot leave the body in a natural way, and a person fails to control this process. In this situation it is possible to live normally, however it requires special knowledge, getting special skills and application of the special hygienic appliances (ostomy pouches).
Such patients are forced to change their lives, work type or even get a handicap degree. The number of the ostomy patients reaches 100-150 persons per 100 thousands of population, per evaluation of International World Health Organization. The number of ostomy patients in Ukraine
