This cooperation is to include:
- training for academic teachers from Ukraine;
- training for doctors from Ukraine;
- training of rescue personnel and auxiliary medical personnel in Ukraine in the field of emergency medicine, including battlefield medicine, by Polish specialists;
- student exchange under the Erasmus+ program, of which Ukraine is a partner.
Possible types of cooperation and sources of financing were presented by Dr. Paweł Poszytek, Director General of the Foundation for the Development of the Education System and Director of the National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme and the European Solidarity Corps.
The Parties have appointed cooperation coordinators. On the Polish side, it will be the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Head of the Department of Medical Rescue Prof. Robert Gałązkowski; on the Ukrainian side, it will be Serhii Ubohov from the Ukrainian Ministry of Health.
The Ukrainian side pledged to compile a detailed list of needs and expectations in terms of the number of people required to take part in the training. The coordinators will meet in early June to discuss the details.
The Medical University of Warsaw would like to invite other universities to cooperate. In the field of trauma therapy training, contact was established with the SWPS University and the M. Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education.
– We plan activities within a short time, and we can train paramedics immediately. We also foresee other actions in the long term. Closer cooperation with Ukrainian medical universities is our priority. The ongoing help needed now will lay the foundations for more intensive cooperation in the future – says the Principal of the Medical University of Warsaw, Prof. Zbigniew Gaciong.
– The unprecedented situation in Ukraine makes it our duty to share knowledge and experience with our Ukrainian colleagues in such critical moments for the benefit of their patients – says the Polish coordinator of cooperation, Prof. Robert Gałązkowski.
