Schedule

Kyiv Lviv Kharkiv Odesa
December 8
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10:00 PMKYIV– Ihor Kuzin, Deputy Minister of Health, Chief State Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine;
– Alla Myronenko, Virologist, MD;

All in person.

10:00 AM – Epidemiological situation in Ukraine

Topics of focus:
– In which regions has the epidemic threshold for flu and COVID-19 been exceeded?
– How will “local quarantines” be introduced this year, and what limitations can be imposed?
– Does the vaccine protect against new strains of COVID-19 and influenza?

Why this is interesting:
Since the beginning of October, 1,300,592 cases of SARS, flu and COVID-19 have been registered in Ukraine. These indicators are 41% higher than in the same period of last year. 56% of patients are children under 17. The coronavirus took the lives of 343 Ukrainians, including two children.
In addition to COVID-19, the influenza viruses (parainfluenza, adenoviruses, RS-viruses, metapneumoviruses) are spreading in three regions. Influenza A cases were observed in Volyn and Kyiv regions. Type B influenza was detected in Ivano-Frankivsk region.
5:00 PMKYIV– Vsevolod Cherniakhovskyi, doctor, combat medic, instructor in tactical medicine at AVC Int. (in person);

Stop the Bleed: workshop for journalists and fixers

Topics of focus:
– Types of bleeding, importance of stopping the bleed quickly;
– Understanding hemorrhagic shock, its symptoms;
– Algorithm for stopping severe bleeding;
– The technique of applying a tourniquet, a pressure bandage and a dressing package (Trauma Bandage);
– Tamponade in case of junctional hemorrhage.

Registration form: https://forms.gle/nd4dWw66kimLuUyo9
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10:00 AMKHARKIV– Olena Lohvynova – deputy head of KhOVA
– Nelya Novitska – Deputy General Director of the State Institution “Kharkiv Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine”

Briefing: “Incidence of influenza, COVID-19 and prevention of epidemiological complications from viral hepatitis A in the Kharkiv region”


12:30 PMKHARKIV– Serhiy Babaev – Chairman of the Council of the NGO “Union of ATO Veterans”
– Oleh Pul – head of the Department for Veterans’ Affairs of KhOVA
– Olena Huzman – a psychologist, and a member of the project team
Andrii Huryev – lawyer, head of the law office “Huriev and Partners”

Briefing presentation of the project: “Reintegration of Volunteers. Slobozhanshchyna”

Context:
The issue of social reintegration of veterans of the russian-Ukrainian war, unfortunately, is currently one of the most problematic issues for Ukrainian society. And these questions will remain acute and significant for society for decades to come. The modern war poses challenges to our state, with the solution of which even the most developed democratic countries have significant difficulties. More than a million soldiers and about 5 million of their relatives and family members (according to experts) have to find a place for themselves in the social and legal system of the new Ukraine. The project “Reintegration of Veterans. Slobozhanshchyna” is aimed at solving this problem and social reintegration of veterans, helping their families, and family members of fallen defenders of Ukraine in Kharkiv and Kharkiv region.
10:00 AMKHARKIV– Olena Rofe-Beketova – director of the CF “Kharkiv with you”
– Anna Sharyhina – program director of the NGO “KhCO SPHERE”
– Natalya Kurdyukova – head of the Kharkiv Media Hub
– Alyona Ayvazyan – co-founder of Kharkiv CF “Help Army Peace”
– Dmytro Bulak – Chairman of the Board of the NGO “Kharkiv Anti-Corruption Center”
– Maryam Yol – producer of Arriba Production, volunteer of “Volonterska” CF
– Oleksandr Pelekhov – Chairman of the Council of Volunteers in the Kharkiv Region, founder of the NGO “Community of the Careless ‘Action'”

– Round table: “Volunteering in the Kharkiv region: results and prospects”

Context:
We invited volunteers to analyze and reflect on the experience of activities for the benefit of society:
What challenges does Kharkiv volunteering face?
Is there an action plan for a protracted war?
How can we evaluate the prospects of volunteering?
Invited experts from humanitarian, military, medical, and other fields will try to answer these questions. We suggest you reflect on your experience together, and the moderator will help summarize it. We will also touch on issues of gender equality, advocacy of Ukraine’s interests at the international level, reconstruction, and anti-corruption activities.
At the event, we will discuss the following topics:
– current directions of volunteering in the Kharkiv region: main changes and achievements;
challenges currently faced by volunteering;
– perspectives and plans: possible ways to solve current problems.