The day Mykolayivska Oblast’ got a special hospital aimed at aiding and rehabilitating the veterans (of the Soviet Red Army veterans who got the status of commissioned and persons with disabilities as a result of WWII) was November 14th, 1945. It was created due to the decree #45 of People’s Commissar of the Ukrainian SSR issued on 10/09/1945 and an order of Mykolayivska Oblast Department of Ministry of Health Care #228 from 11/01/1945. It was all about a simple requalification of the hospital. 

Initially, the hospital was located in the surviving building of the secondary school № 5 (1st Ukrainian Gymnasium), and also occupied a one-story building (former music school), where the club and the clerical office were located. The outpatient department was located in an adapted living space. Household services were located in the yard, there were food and storage facilities, vegetable stores, a garage, a stable, and others. 360 beds were deployed in the main building, and the other 40 beds specifically fit for tuberculosis patients were housed in specially designated wards of the sanatorium and the tuberculosis treatment department of the city hospital.

The premises of the former school did not meet the conditions required by the medical institution. The wounded were accommodated in corridors and classrooms. In the former gym of the school there was a huge ward for walking patients. It could house more than 60 people on bunk beds.

From November 1945, i.e., from the day of its organization, the head of the hospital was Yevsey Yukhymovich Teplytsky, a surgeon by profession. Yuhym Borysovych Bilenky, Mykhailo Vasyliovych Dykovsky, Lyudmyla Oleksiivna Dvoryak, Volodymyr Heorhiyovych Fedorov, and Tamara Ivanivna Sudakova were deputies from the medical unit at different times. The head of the hospital and the staff had the most difficult post-war years. Just imagine, at the end of 1946 the hospital had 22 doctors and 60 paramedics.

The hospital had a large administrative and economic unit with a commandant, chief of staff, a political officer, a propagandist, and a club manager. There were workshops where the patients in recovery learned the beginnings of the professions of carpenter, painter, plasterer under the guidance of instructors of labor education. Then the workshops turned into a school for teaching people with disabilities to use wheelchairs and drive cars. In 1982, the school was liquidated.

To improve the nutrition of the wounded and sick, the hospital had vast farming facilities, including a pig farm, stables for keeping horses. They also had a suburban farm where potatoes, other vegetables, and fodder for horses were grown. All this was taken care of by the hospital staff, and they were constantly distracted by sowing, weeding and harvesting work on collective farms in the region.

The hospital staff experienced great difficulties during the famine years. On April 25, 1947 on the basis of the hospital they opened 2 departments with 200 beds for the reception, treatment and care of civilian patients with alimentary dystrophy. To replenish food supplies, the hospital staff traveled in vans to the villages and asked the population and collective farms to spare food for the sick. The department for patients with alimentary dystrophy had been operational for 5 months – from spring to autumn. Then 510 people were treated, 24 died of starvation and comorbidities.

In October 1947, after the reformation of the departments, the number of patients was replenished with no less serious patients. In addition to the tuberculosis department for war invalids, the 2nd tuberculosis department for civilians was opened, and in 1955 the tuberculosis department of the regional hospital moved here as well. It was operating as part of the hospital until 1962, and was subsequently transferred to the newly built TB hospital. The second tuberculosis ward for war invalids had not been closed, however, until 1970.

In 1949, the Mykolayiv Hospital handed over the occupied premises to the former owner – the school № 5 (since 1993 – 1st Ukrainian Gymnasium) and moved to the newly provided premises in  Radisna Str., 2, which before the war was specially built as a nursery, and after the liberation of Mykolayiv from the occupants the building became a hospital for prisoners of war.

In 1949, 531 people were hospitalized, and in 1950 – 822. The hospital was working hard with an extreme overload. In May 1953, Teplitsky was fired. Colonel of the Medical Service Mykhailo Semenovych Skuratovsky, a surgeon by profession, was appointed Chief of Medicine.

In 1955, the hospital had three departments: orthopedic surgery with 60 beds, pulmonary tuberculosis treatment department with 80 beds and general therapy department with 60 beds. In the second half of the 1950s, some of the hospitalized were isolated cases of military injuries, the vast majority were general practitioners’ cases, as well as ones of the general surgeons and, to a lesser extent, tuberculosis patients. Thus, the main goal of the organization of specialized treatment of the disabled persons was the elimination of the sanitary consequences of the Great Patriotic War – and due to enormous efforts by the hospital staff said problem was almost completely solved. In 1960, the hospital achieved full coverage of the treatment of invalids of the Patriotic War and the full capacity of the hospital.

In 1980, the hospital was overhauled with the replacement of the hot and cold-water supply system, sewage, procurement of medical and diagnostic equipment, hard and soft inventory for the infirmary. The plan of the regional health care department in Mykolayivska Oblast’ in 1983 envisaged the construction of a hospital for invalids of the Great Patriotic War in the residential district of Lisky, based on the already existing regional hospital.

And so, the decision was made to construct a new medical building of the hospital. Funds were allocated from the proceeds of the communist subbotniks. The hospital was commissioned in December 1986.

The initiator and supervisor of the construction was the incumbent head of the hospital, Yevheniya Nykyforivna Zakharchenko, who put a lot of personal effort and energy into the implementation of the construction plans. She was constantly looking out for funds, approved the construction plan, prepared and approved the project.

Borys Oleksandrovych Ledoschuk, the head of the hospital, was the one who actually started the construction. And he adapted the project to the conditions of future work, laid the foundations of modern departments and services, began work on equipping them with medical and technological equipment, and then his successor – Mykola Hryhorovych Chubchyk – was Chief of Medicine for a decade. Kreitor Oleksandr Anatoliyovych, in his turn, made an invaluable and unforgettable contribution to the establishment of the hospital and the enhancement and development of its staff.

In 2003 and 2004, general practitioners’ departments of the regional hospital for war invalids were opened on the basis of Pervomaiska and Novobuzka central district hospitals for war veterans living in rural areas, thus increasing the hospital’s bed count from 245 to 300.

Since 2014, the War Veterans Hospital has been a center for medical and psychological rehabilitation of anti-terrorist operation participants. In February 2015, a medical and psychological center was established for the rehabilitation of anti-terrorist operation participants.

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In 2018, inpatient treatment was provided to 5,318 people, including residents of Mykolayiv (2994 persons) – 56.3% of them

PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES – 1129 people – 21.2%

CHILDREN OF WAR INVALIDS – 718 people – 13.5%

COMBATANTS – 1280 people – 24.1%

PARTICIPANTS OF THE WAR – 1289 people – 24.2%

PERSONS EQUALIZED BY BENEFITS – 417 persons – 7.9%

CIVILIANS – 485 people – 9.1%

Of these, ATO / JFO PARTICIPANTS – 598 people

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In 2019, inpatient treatment was provided to 4,563 people, including residents of Mykolayiv (2862 persons) – 62.7%:

PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES – 1114 people – 21.8%

CHILDREN OF WAR INVALIDS – 734 people – 14.4%

COMBATANTS – 1303 people – 25.6%

PARTICIPANTS OF THE WAR – 1002 people – 19.6%

PERSONS EQUALIZED BY BENEFITS – 410 persons – 8.1%

CIVILIANS – 538 people – 10.5%

Of these, ATO / JFO PARTICIPANTS – 611 people

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In the first half of 2020, inpatient treatment was provided to 1,297 people (due to quarantine under COVID-19, planned hospitalization was limited for some time in accordance with the Cabinet of Ministers)

including residents of Mykolayiv (727 persons) – 56.1%

PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES – 447 people – 25.6%

CHILDREN OF WAR INVALIDS – 236 people – 13.6%

COMBATANTS – 477 people – 27.3%

PARTICIPANTS OF THE WAR – 269 people – 15.4%

PERSONS EQUALIZED BY BENEFITS – 123 persons – 7.0%

CIVILIANS – 194 people – 11.1%

Of these, ATO / JFO PARTICIPANTS – 243 people

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Priority funding is provided to the regional hospital for war invalids. According to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine № 34 from January 27, 2016 “On increasing the cost of food and medicine in health care facilities for war veterans”, the hospital may allocate per capita on a daily basis: for food – 55 hryvnias; for the purchase of medicines and medical dressings – 65 hryvnias, which allows for quality treatment of war veterans and the constant introduction of modern methods of diagnostics, prevention and treatment of major diseases caused by age.

PERSONS ENTITLED TO BE TREATED IN HOSPITALS FOR WAR VETERANS

According to the Law of Ukraine “On the status of war veterans and the guarantees of their social protection”, Section II “The concept and content of the status of war veterans and persons covered by this Law” the right for treatment at this hospital is reserved for:

Article 4. War veterans

Veterans of war are people who took part in the defense of the Motherland or in military conflicts on the territory of other states.

Veterans of the war include: participants in hostilities, war invalids, participants in the war.

Article 5. Participants in hostilities

Participants in hostilities are persons who took part in combat missions to protect the Motherland in military units, formations, associations of all types and branches of the Armed Forces (Navy), guerrilla units and underground and other formations both in wartime and in peacetime *.

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* The list of units that were part of the active army and other formations is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

Article 6. Persons belonging to the following categories:

Participants in hostilities are:

1) servicemen who served in military units, units, headquarters and institutions that were part of the active army during the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars, during other combat operations aimed at the defense of the Motherland, guerrillas and underground fighters of the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars;

2) participants in hostilities on the territory of other countries – servicemen of the Soviet Army, Navy, State Security Committee, privates, officers and servicemen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the former USSR (including military and technical experts and advisers), workers of relevant categories which by decision of the Government of the former Soviet

Union served, worked or were on business trips in the countries where hostilities took place during this period, and took part in hostilities directly or in the enablement of the combat activities of troops (or navies).

Servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Security Service of Ukraine, Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, privates, officers and servicemen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, other military formations formed in accordance with the laws of Ukraine, sent on peacekeeping missions in the state where the fighting was taking place during the stated period. (Paragraph two of item 2 of part one of Article 6 as amended in accordance with Law No. 3200-IV (3200-15) of December 15, 2005)

The list of states referred to in this paragraph, the periods of hostilities in them (63-94-n) and the categories of workers are determined by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine;

3) servicemen, as well as officers and privates of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Security Committee of the former USSR, who during the Great Patriotic War served in cities whose participation in the defense is credited to years of service for pensions on preferential terms, units of the active army established for servicemen;

4) freelance members of the Armed Forces, troops and bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Security Committee of the former USSR, who held regular positions in military units, units, staffs and institutions that were part of the active army during the Great Patriotic War and other time periods conducting hostilities, or were in said time periods in cities, in active participation, in case the defense of said objects, target or cities is credited equally to the years of service for the appointment of pensions on preferential terms established for servicemen of the active army;

5) former servicemen, freelancers, as well as former fighters of fighter battalions, platoons and detachments of territorial protection and other formations that took a direct part in combat operations to eliminate sabotage and terrorist groups of Nazi Germany and other illegal formations and groups in the former Soviet Union;

6) employees of special formations of the People’s Commissariat of Traffic Ways, People’s Commissariat of Communications, People’s Commissariat of Health, industrial and transportation vessels and aviation aircraft of the People’s Commissariat of Fisheries of the former USSR, sea and river fleet, flight of the Air Force of the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route, transferred during the Great Patriotic War to the position of the Red Army enlisted privates and officers, and performing tasks in the interests of the army and navy within the rear borders of active fronts or operational zones of active fleets, as well as crew members of fleets captured in the ports of Nazi Germany on June 22, 1941 in violation of the Convention on the Situation of Enemy Merchant Ships at the Beginning of Military Actions (The Hague, 1907);

7) people who during the Great Patriotic War were part of units and subdivisions of the active army and navy as sons, pupils of regiments and apprentices until they reached the age of majority;

8) persons who took part in hostilities against Nazi Germany and its allies during the Second World War on the territory of other states as part of the allied armies of the former USSR, guerrilla units, underground groups and other anti-fascist formations;

9) workers in the field of cultural services of the fronts, who during the Great Patriotic War or during the hostilities in other states performed before the soldiers of the active armies, navies, military units and contingents;

10) persons who in the period from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944 were working at enterprises, institutions and organizations of the city of Leningrad (current Saint-Petersburg) and were awarded the medal “For the Defense of Leningrad”, and persons awarded the badge “Resident of besieged Leningrad”, as well as persons, who from October 30, 1941 to July 4, 1942 participated in the defense of the city of Sevastopol and were awarded the medal “For the Defense of Sevastopol”; (Paragraph 10 of Article 6 as amended by Law No. 2202-IV (2202-15) of November 18, 2004)

11) persons who were involved in the actions of military units, state and public organizations aimed at demining of fields and industrial and economical objects, as well as people who participated in minesweepers trawling combat mines in territorial and neutral waters in wartime and post-war times;

12) persons who were minors, conscripted or voluntarily joined the ranks of the Soviet Army and Navy during the military conscription of 1941-1945; {Paragraph 12 of the first part of Article 6 as amended by Law No. 3505-IV (3505-15) of February 23, 2006}

13) conscripts who were called up for training and sent to Afghanistan during hostilities there;

14) servicemen of automotive battalions who were sent to Afghanistan to deliver goods to this country during the period of hostilities there;

15) servicemen in flight

members who flew on combat missions to Afghanistan from the territory of the former USSR;

16) soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army who took part in hostilities against Nazi invaders in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine in 1941-1944, who did not commit crimes against peace and humanity and were rehabilitated in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression in Ukraine” (962-12);

17) servicemen and persons who were enlisted in the local air defense units of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the former USSR and took a direct part in confronting enemy raids, eliminating the effects of bombing and artillery shelling by specially formed units; (Part one of Article 6 is supplemented by clause 17 in accordance with Law No. 2349-III (2349-14) of April 5, 2001);

18) people who, while being part of the formations of the people’s militia, took part in hostilities during the Great Patriotic War. (Part one of Article 6 is supplemented by clause 18 in accordance with Law No. 727-V (727-16) of March 13, 2007) (Part two of Article 6 is excluded on the basis of Law No. 2256-IV (2256-15) of December 16, 2004) (Article 6 as amended by Law No. 488/95-VR of December 22, 1995);

19) servicemen (reservists, conscripts) and employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, privates, officers, servicemen, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Protection of Ukraine, the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, other military formations formed in accordance with the laws of Ukraine, which defended the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and participated directly in the anti-terrorist operation, as well as employees of enterprises, institutions, organizations that were directly involved in the anti-terrorist operation in the areas of its implementation in the manner prescribed by law *.

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* (The procedure for granting the status of a participant in hostilities to the persons specified in the first section of this paragraph, the categories of such persons and the terms of their participation (involvement) in the anti-terrorist operation, as well as areas of anti-terrorist operation is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers.

Article 7. Persons having the status of war invalids

War invalids include servicemen of the active army and navy, guerrillas, underground fighters, workers who became disabled as a result of injuries, contusions, traumas, illnesses received during the defense of the Motherland, military service (duties) or associated with being at the front, in guerrilla units and formations,

underground organizations and groups and other formations recognized by active legislation of Ukraine, in the area of hostilities, on frontline sections of railways, on the construction of defensive lines, naval bases and airfields during the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars or with participation in hostilities in peacetime.

War invalids’ category also includes:

1) servicemen, self-employed persons who obtained disability as a result of injury, contusion, mutilation or illness received during the defense of the Motherland, other military service duties related to being at the front in other periods, with the elimination of Chernobyl

catastrophe, nuclear accidents, nuclear tests, with participation in military exercises with the use of nuclear weapons, other damage inflicted due to exposure to nuclear materials;

2) chiefs and privates of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Security Committee of the former USSR, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine and other military formations who obtained disability due to injury, contusion, mutilation or disease, received during the performance of official duties, liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe, nuclear accidents, nuclear tests, participation in military exercises with the use of nuclear weapons, other damage inflicted due to exposure to nuclear materials; (Paragraph 2 of the second part of Article 7 as amended in accordance with Law No. 3200-IV (3200-15) of 15.12.2005) (Paragraph 3 of the second part of Article 7 is excluded on the basis of Law No. 2256-IV (2256-15) of 16.12 .2004)

4) persons who obtained disability as a result of injuries or other damage to health received in areas of hostilities during the Great Patriotic War and from explosives, ammunition and military weapons in the postwar period, as well as during work related to demining of ammunition during the Great Patriotic War, regardless of the time of their execution;

5) persons who obtained disability as a result of hostilities of the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War or became disabled due to

aforementioned reasons while being minors in the war and postwar years;

6) servicemen, freelancers, as well as former fighters of fighter battalions, platoons and detachments of people’s protection and other persons who took a direct part in combat operations to eliminate sabotage and terrorist groups and other illegal groups in the former USSR and obtained disability due to injuries, contusions or injuries sustained in the course of service in these battalions, platoons and detachments between 22 June 1941 and 31 December 1954;

7) participants in hostilities on the territory of other states who obtained disability as a result of injuries, contusions, injuries or illnesses related to their stay in those states;

8) persons who took a direct part in hostilities during the Great Patriotic War and the war with Japan, and persons who as minors were called up or voluntarily joined the ranks of the Soviet Army and Navy during the military conscription of 1941-1945 and have become disabled as a result of a general illness or illness acquired during military service or service in the bodies of internal affairs, state security, and other military formations; The second part of Article 7 is supplemented by paragraph 8 in accordance with Law No. 760-IV (760-15) of May 15, 2003; in the wording of Laws N 1770-IV (1770-15) of 15.06.2004, N 2939-IV (2939-15) of 05.10.2005, N 1439-VI of 03.06.2009}

9) persons involved in the formations of the Civil Defense, who obtained disability as a result of diseases related to the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. (Part two of Article 7 is supplemented by Clause 9 in accordance with Law No. 1770-IV (1770-15) of June 15, 2004) (Article 7 as amended by Law No. 488/95-VR of December 22, 1995)

Article 8. War Participants

Participants in the war are servicemen who during the war served in the Armed Forces of the former USSR, workers of the rear, as well as other persons provided by this Law.

Article 9. Persons with the status of war participants

Participants in the war are:

1) servicemen who served in the Armed Forces, troops and bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Security Committee of the former USSR or in the armies of its allies during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the 1945 war with imperialist Japan or studied in this period in military schools, schools and courses; (Paragraph 1 of Article 9 as amended in accordance with Law No. 2344-IV (2344-15) of January 13, 2005)

2) persons who during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the war of 1945 with imperialist Japan worked in the rear at enterprises, institutions, organizations, collective farms, state farms, individual farms, on the construction of defensive lines, procurement of fuel, food supplies, drove cattle, studied during this period in craft, railway schools, schools and voc-techs and other institutions of vocational education, vocational training courses or while studying in schools, higher and secondary special educational institutions worked in the national economy and for the reconstruction of economic and cultural facilities.

Participants in the war also include people who worked in the territories of the former USSR after 1944 during the Great Patriotic War, as well as citizens who worked in the allied states of the USSR under the direction of state bodies of the former USSR. (Paragraph two of item 2 of Article 9 as amended in accordance with Law No. 1219-IV (1219-15) of October 2, 2003 – shall enter into force on January 1, 2004)

Persons born before December 31, 1932 inclusive and those who for good reasons are not able to submit documents proving the fact of work during the war, the status of a participant in the war can be determined by the relevant commissions in the manner prescribed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

Regarding people born after December 31, 1932, the status of a participant in the war can be established only in the presence of documents and other evidence that unequivocally confirms the fact of work during the war.

Participants in the war are persons awarded orders and medals of the former USSR for selfless work and impeccable military service in the rear during the Great Patriotic War and the war with imperialist Japan; (Paragraph 2 of Article 9 as amended in accordance with Law No. 2344-IV (2344-15) of January 13, 2005)

3) members of self-defense groups of object and emergency teams of local air defense, people’s militia, operating during the Great Patriotic War;

4) persons who during the Great Patriotic War were in the army and navy as sons, pupils of regiments and apprentices until they came of age; (Paragraph 5 of Article 9 is excluded on the basis of Law No. 2256-IV (2256-15) of December 16, 2004);

6) workers who were sent on a contractual basis to work in the countries where hostilities took place (including the Republic of Afghanistan in the period from December 1, 1979 to December 1989), and were not part of a limited contingent of Soviet troops;

7) wives (husbands) of servicepeople who worked for hire in the states referred to in paragraph 6 of this article during the period of hostilities in them and were not part of a limited contingent of Soviet troops;

8) persons who during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 served their sentences in places of imprisonment or were in exile and rehabilitated in accordance with the current legislation of Ukraine and the former USSR; (Paragraph 9 of Article 9 is excluded on the basis of Law No. 2256-IV (2256-15) of December 16, 2004);

10) persons who during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 voluntarily provided material, financial or other assistance to military units, hospitals, guerrilla units, underground groups, other formations and individual servicemen in their struggle against Nazi invaders, in case of indisputable confirmation of these facts can be provided;

11) persons who after September 9, 1944 were relocated to the territory of Ukraine from the territory of other countries; (Article 9 is supplemented by paragraph 11 in accordance with Law No. 1219-IV (1219-15) of October 2, 2003 – enters into force on January 1, 2004)

12) people who during the defense of the city of Sevastopol from October 30, 1941 to July 4, 1942 lived on its territory. Evidence of stay on the territory of besieged Sevastopol can be given in form of recognized certificates “Inhabitant of besieged Sevastopol 1941-1942” and “Young Defender of Sevastopol 1941-1942”, certificates, testimony of witnesses and other documents submitted to the commissions referred to in paragraph 3 of paragraph 2 of this article.

{Article 9 is supplemented by paragraph 12 in accordance with Law No. 2202-IV (2202-15) of November 18, 2004; as amended by Law No. 3505-IV (3505-15) of February 23, 2006} (Article 9 as amended by Law No. 488/95-VR of December 22, 1995)

Article 10. Persons covered by this Law

This Law shall apply to:

1) families of servicemen, guerrillas, underground fighters, participants in hostilities on the territory of other states, persons equated to them, referred to in Articles 6 and 7 of this Law, who died (went missing) or died as a result of injury, contusion or mutilation received under time of protection of the Motherland or performance of other duties of military service (service duties), and also as a result of the disease connected with stay at the front or received during military service or in the territory of other states during military actions and conflicts;

families of servicemen, commanders and privates who were called to the meeting of conscripts of the Ministry of Defense, internal affairs and state security of the former USSR and died (perished) while performing tasks of public order in emergencies related to with anti-social manifestations;

the families of those killed during the Great Patriotic War from the self-defense groups of the local air defense target and emergency teams, as well as the families of those killed in hostilities by employees of hospitals, hospitals and other medical institutions. (Paragraph three of item 1 of Article 10 as amended by Law No. 2458-IV (2458-15) of March 3, 2005)

The members of the families of the killed (missing) servicemen, guerrillas and other persons mentioned in this article include:

dependents of the deceased or missing person, who are being paid a pension in this connection;

parents;

one of the spouses who has not remarried, regardless of whether he is paid a pension or not;

children who do not have (and did not have) their own families;

children who have families but have become disabled before

reaching adulthood;

children, both of whose parents died or went missing;

2) wives (husbands) of deceased invalids of the Great Patriotic War, as well as wives (husbands) of deceased participants in war and hostilities, guerrillas and underground fighters recognized for life as invalids from general illness, occupational injury and other reasons who did not remarry.

Wives (husbands) of deceased war invalids, combatants, guerrillas, underground fighters and war veterans awarded orders and medals of the former USSR for selfless work and impeccable military service, recognized as disabled for life, this article applies regardless of the time of death of the invalid;

3) wives (husbands) who have not remarried, parents, minor children of deceased combatants, guerrillas, underground fighters, servicemen and participants in the war, who served in military units, units, headquarters and institutions that were part of the active army in the period of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the war of 1938, 1939, 1945 with imperialist Japan, awarded for hostilities with state awards and orders and medals of the former USSR (except for the anniversary); {Article 10 is supplemented by paragraph 3 in accordance with Law No. 2344-IV (2344-15) of January 13, 2005; as amended by Law No. 880-VI (880-17) of January 15, 2009}

4) children of deceased participants in hostilities, who study full-time

in higher educational institutions of I-IV levels of accreditation and vocational and technical educational institutions, until the graduation of these educational institutions, but not longer than until they reach 23 years of age. (Article 10 is supplemented by paragraph 4 in accordance with Law No. 3174-IV (3174-15) of December 1, 2005)

(Article 10 as amended by Law No. 488/95-VR of December 22, 1995)

Article 11. People who have special merits before the Motherland

Heroes of the Soviet Union, full cavaliers of the Order of Glory, persons awarded with four or more medals “For Courage”, as well as Heroes of Socialist Labor, awarded this title for work during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, are considered to have special merits before the Motherland. years.

(Article 11 as amended by Law No. 488/95-VR of December 22, 1995)

Since 2010, the hospital has the right to treat children with disabilities in general disease (Law of Ukraine of 16.02.2010 № 1891-VI “On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine” On Social Protection of Children of War “on the right to inpatient care in veterans’ hospitals).