May 13th, 2016

Heart Institute, together with Kalangos Fund, made joint effort in field of humanitarian cardiac surgery. They built up a at the Heart Institute specialized humanitarian center in order to provide here, in Ukraine, specialized cardiac surgical care to children from developing countries. Kalangos Fund will provide full financial support, and Heart Institute with its staff and infrastructure ensure all the necessary medical service. It is scheduled to treat 8 to 12 cardiac surgical patients monthly.

March, 25, 2016
On March, 21-25, 2016 under the Ukrainian project “UMSA Internship” (traineeship, organized by the Ukrainian medical students association) the best medical students and interns from Kiev, Vinnitsa and Odessa were the first who had training at Heart Institute.

March 17th, 2016

The IVth Scientific and practical conference “Functional diagnostics of cardiovascular disease” was held by National medical academy for postgraduate education in name of P.L. Shupyk and Heart Institute by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

February 23, 2016

Students of the Medical University and all the interested, the auditory was full, with many guests coming from another cities.

February 22, 2016

It was the first arterial switch operation for great vessels transposition in Moldova. We thank our Moldovan colleagues for their trust to Heart Institute doctors.

February, 10-11, 2016

Four students from the Warsaw medical university had onsite training at Kiev Heart Institute.
The guests from Poland got the possibility to visit procedures of coronary artery bypass, mitral and aortic valves plasty, pulmonary artery thrombectomy, familiarized with the special aspects of anesthesia and intensive care for cardiac surgical patients, visited the MRI department.
The students got bright impressions and practical knowledge, they expressed many thanks for friendly reception in the Institute and in Ukraine in general

January, 25, 2016

Aan International symposium «Actual issues of pediatric cardiac surgery» was held in the State Institution “Heart Institute by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine”. Prof.Kalangos, the Chairman of the Department of Cardio-Vascular Surgery at University Hospital of Geneva and Prof. A. Petropoulos, chief pediatric cardiologist at the Merkezi clinic (Baku) participated in the Symposium.

December 23, 2015

New Year is a most welcome holiday for all children, as the greatest wishes have to become true this special day. A charity found «The heart in hand», which is founded by the Heart Institute employees with a mission is to help children with congenital heart disease from poor families, together with «Blagodom» company took with pleasure a charity initiative of organizing a New Year celebration for little patients of the pediatric department.

December 16, 2015

General Director of SI Heart Institute by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine Boris Todurov visited Sumy town. The main topic was an introduction of a medical program «Stop infarction». This is a social program, which provides free stenting of heart arteries for the Sumy region residents, who suffer acute myocardial infarction.

December 3, 2015

First time in Ukraine on December 3rd, 2015, with the participation of Allan Stewart, the leading cardiac surgeon of Mount Sinai Hospital (New-York, USA), two unique surgical procedures for have been performed to cure two Ukrainian patients with ascending aorta aneurisms.