Currently in Ukraine when all resources of the state are focused on the support of the exhausted economy and the territory defense, we should remember about the most important thing is our children’s health. Future generation is nation’s future. I believe that the expectant mothers’ health should be a priority of the state policy.
Today there are both economic and demographic crises in Ukraine. The country's population is aging rapidly causing even greater crisis in economic development. Weak state support of social spheres actually exacerbates the process. If we don’t stop in time, the UN predicts that by 2050 Ukraine's population will decrease to 34 million people. Can Ukraine be called a dying country, a country of pensioners?
In September the president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko admitted within his speech at the Sustainable Development Summit of the United Nations that over last 15 years Ukraine reduced the infant mortality rate almost twice and improved maternal health within Millennium Development Goal framework. However these data fell again because of the events in the east of the country. Maternal mortality rates have remained one of the highest in Europe.
According to the UNICEF Children's Fund, the mortality rate of pregnant and parturient women in Israel is one of the lowest in the world. The Jewish state along with several other countries is on third place in the international ranking. Since 1990 in Israel the mortality rate of pregnant and parturient women has decreased by 54.5%.
Besides Israel, Iceland, Sweden, Greece and Poland are top countries where mothers can feel safe as well.
What are the reasons for such high rates? What should the officials of Ministry of Health in Ukraine pay attention to? The answer is simple and difficult at the same time: the level of medicine in Israel is one of the highest in the world; the state is constantly increasing the number of medical facilities, which are designed to monitor the health of mother and child.
Evidently, it is very difficult to provide sustainable development of medicine within the territory of war actions. However, in this case the sample of Israel is significant. Even for years of neighbors’ permanent aggression not only the level of the economy increased, but the world's best national health care system was created. Without any doubt it is a guarantee of nation and state existence in the future.
In my posts I often mention that Ukrainian authorities have to learn much from their Israeli colleagues. The issue of health care of mother and child is not an exception.
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