Yesterday, a chaplaincy service was presented in Lutsk. It will care for those who want to but do not have the opportunity to come to church. This refers primarily to people who are in military units, hospitals, and prisons. \n \nUsually, a chaplain is called a military priest. But besides this, "chaplain" also means a priest at a chapel. It is precisely in view of the latter meaning that the service created under the Volyn Eparchy was called chaplaincy. According to Bishop Michael of Lutsk and Volyn, its main goal is to care for those believers who do not always have the opportunity to get to the church. This refers primarily to those who are in military units, hospitals, and prisons. Such a mission existed before as well, but it was more spontaneous, says the vladyka. In its current form, however, the chaplaincy service requires special training of personnel, says Father Michael: \n \nA priest is not called a priest, but is called a chaplain. We understand that this is a corresponding burden on us, because chaplaincy, first of all, should reflect people who know their business. We also understand that the question will be raised of chaplains as monks or celibacy, because this is service in the troops and in other units, it requires the expenditure of all strength and time on the assigned task, therefore the family burden for him will be complicated. \n \nThe best medicine is the one in which both the sick person and the doctor believe, says Ivan Sydor, chief physician of the Volyn Regional Clinical Hospital. This hospital has long had a chapel, and besides that, 2 monuments – to Saint Panteleimon and Nicholas. They are located so that people who are going into surgery could light a candle and pray. Ivan Sydor continues \n \nIn a day we perform up to 70 non-simple operations. In ten days that is 750 operated patients who lie under an IV drip in the intensive care unit and each one before surgery wants to pray. There are very many patients who want to confess, because a seriously ill patient practically should die in a hospital bed. If medicine is already unable to help, then at the end a priest comes to him. \n \nThere are no confessional problems in the hospital, the medics assure. And soon not just a chapel but an entire church with a choir should appear here, such is the new initiative of the chief physician \n