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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

They Promise to Legalize Right of British Brain Surgeons to Help

13 November, 2012 - 00:00

By Oleksandr FANDEYEV, The Day

British neurosurgeons Henry March and Richard Gatfield, whose private visit
to the Spinal Column and Spinal Cord Neurosurgery Center of the Kyiv Emergency
Medical Service Hospital was banned by the hospital administration, have
returned to London. But the agitation over the "illegal" cooperation has
not abated.

Director of the Center, Candidate of Medical Sciences Ihor Kurylets
is quite sure that now they will show his team how the cow ate the cabbage.
At a recent meeting in the Kyiv Health Protection Department they promised
to support the Center in cooperation with foreign partners and legalization
of their assistance.

According to Mr. Kurylets, Ukrainian law does not prohibit his British
colleagues from visiting the operating room and giving advice. Without
professional contacts, adapting British methods in the Ukrainian clinic
is impossible.

"In our country, foreign guests do not need any certificates in order
to visit a hospital," Henry March told a UNIAN press-conference. "The administration
is not involved in specific medical issues, and if my manager should interfere
in the operation list, they would send him to an asylum."

Chief Kyiv neurosurgeon Professor Mykola Polishchuk acknowledged the
high professional level of his renowned British colleagues and their persistence
in introducing progressive achievements into Ukrainian medicine. The problem,
which he thinks is not worth a plugged nickel, is primarily of an ethical
and juridical nature. According to him, highly skilled neurosurgeon Ihor
Kurylets opposed himself to his colleagues somewhat. No doubt, the assistance
of British neurosurgeons is very desirable, and this was recognized at
the top, but it needs official legalization.

Richard Gatfield believes that one of the underlying causes of the "medical"
scandal is that they financed this neurosurgical project "from the bottom
up," because in the West they have come to a conclusion that if a project
is funded "from the top down," a specific doctor or patient will derive
practically no benefit from it.

 

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