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2002 Standards Document in Ukrainan

The Development of Healthcare Chaplaincy in Ukraine

After the fall of the USSR, the Ukraine Health Care System inherited all problems of the Soviet Health Care. A very serious problem was, and still remains medical chaplaincy that was forbidden in the time of the Soviet Union.

In November 2004 by special Decree of Lubomyr Huzar, the Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/ugcc_history/) there was established the Inter-diocesan Commission of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church for the Pastoral Health Care. The Commission was called to develop and provide the mission of the Church in the Health Care in Ukraine.

Tasks of the Commission

Main fields of activity

1. Pastoral activity

2. Educational activity

3. Academic activity

4. Publishing activity

Translation and publication of research, practical handbooks, Church documents etc.

At the present time one of the main task of the Commission is to develop medical chaplaincy in the Church as well to bring an attention of the society to this issue. With this intension the Commission presented to the Bishop Conference of UGCC the project of the document “The Status of the Medical Chaplain”. At the same time the Commission makes research in order to present to the Bishop Conference possible initiatives for the legitimisation of  medical chaplaincy in Ukraine.

Rev Volodymyr Lyupak
 

[May 2008]


 

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