40-50% of appeals from Lutsk residents concern the allocation of financial assistance for the treatment of seriously ill patients; these requests most often come from representatives of socially vulnerable segments of the population — this was stated today at a press conference by the head of the "Our Ukraine" faction in the Lutsk City Council, Andriy Kozyura.
Lutsk "Our Ukraine" members set out to address this problem together with the Volyn Regional Public Organization "Volyn Regional Hospital Fund." During a joint press conference, Dmytro Glazunov — chairman of the board of the VRPO "Volyn Regional Hospital Fund" and Andriy Kozyura – head of the "Our Ukraine" faction in the LCR informed Volyn journalists about the introduction of a new targeted program "Give Me Life," which is intended to draw the attention of all people, regardless of their political preferences, and to provide assistance to people who truly need it.
According to Andriy Kozyura, "Our Ukraine" members will help process the necessary documents and obtain funds under the program for treatment in Ukraine, and if necessary, abroad as well. The mechanism for receiving such assistance is simple. It is necessary to submit an application for assistance, provide a doctor's conclusion regarding the diagnosis or a certificate from a medical institution. And with the completed documents, they apply to the VRPO "VOLK" on the recommendation of Andriy Hryhorovych Kozyura.
Of course, the organizers of the "Give Me Life" program anticipated that there would be people who would try to abuse this program. Therefore, in addition to the above-mentioned documents, one must also provide a certificate from the place of employment or any other document proving the person's unsatisfactory financial situation. After all, the organizers of the program must be certain that the funds allocated for assistance will reach the hands of the person who truly needs them.
The "Give Me Life" program is a joint step by the "Our Ukraine" bloc and the VRPO "Volyn Regional Hospital Fund" in the direction of charity aimed at facilitating the provision of medical assistance to low-income segments of the population. And as Dmytro Glazunov emphasized, this program should be evaluated not as a PR campaign, but as real steps to help people who need it.
The initiators of the "Give Me Life" program plan to hold a charity event in the near future in order to increase the program's expenditure budget.