How the teaching process is built in the hospitals of Lviv?

Small Heart with Art returned from one of the best educational expeditions.

And this time we succeeded in finding unusual artifacts!

One of these documents is “Typical Regulations on the Conditions of Teaching for the Students that remain on the long-term treatment” dated 1981. This Regulation evidences that even in the time of the USSR importance of the studying process for the children in the sad chambers was well established. This document was stored in the regional hospital “OHMATDYT” where to this day still working according to its rules. Doctors and teachers themselves say that  “of course, no one extended the force of regulation, however, no one canceled”. At the hospital they arranged the classrooms and organized group lessons. Children study English, geography, mathematics that are taught to them by the teachers from the nearest schools. All children keep up with the program of their peers and what is more important, absorb all the knowledge with appetite.

Lviv has become the only city where children are being taught in hospitals. But not only to the small patients of the “OHMATDYT” but also children from the Western Ukrainian specialized children’s medical center – the so-called “Chernobyl hospital” were lucky on this matter. The teachers there didn’t stop working from the very first day of the independence of Ukraine. Chief doctor Andrij Syniuta introduced us to the children and described to us how the parents literally scratched out from the officials the right of their children to study in the wards. He pointed: “And look. Oncology. Boy Lukian. Near his bed there is a mathematics teacher. They are solving tasks. However, the lesson lasts 35 minutes. But the child knows that he will return to his class and he keep up with his peers. He has an incentive to come back!”.

Honestly, we are happy that there is a right on education in Lviv and hospitals provided supportive care by their initiatives. We hope that in the nearest future other cities of Ukraine will be able to boast of schools at hospitals.