We tell you how to get on a planned operation during the war and how to prepare for it.

Get a referral from your doctor

The rules for conducting planned operations in Ukraine have not changed. To have the operation free of charge, you need to get an electronic referral from your family doctor or your doctor.

Ask your doctor how to prepare for surgery and how recovery is going

In particular:

• how long will you need to spend in the hospital;
• how much – to be in bed;
• What are the lifestyle restrictions?
• what assistance will be needed for recovery;
• when you can start an active life again.

Agree with loved ones who can help you during recovery, how much time and what kind of help from this person will be required

Find an institution that conducts planned operations during wartime.

Free elective surgeries are performed by medical institutions that have concluded an agreement with the NSZU in the areas of Surgical operations in stationary conditions, Surgery of one day.

However, during martial law, only those institutions that have the resources to do so can conduct planned operations. In certain regions, hostilities continue and hospitals are loaded with the wounded.

According to the Order of the Ministry of Health No. 507, institutions must stop providing services for planned hospitalizations when:

• loading more than 70% of the therapeutic bed fund;
• loading more than 50% of the surgical bed fund;
• by decision of the structural divisions on health issues of the regional, Kyiv city military administrations, taking into account the tactical situation.

For up-to-date information about the regions where planned operations are carried out, please contact the NSZU contact center at 16-77.

Select a hospital and make phone calls to make sure they are doing elective surgeries.

Gather the necessary things

NHSU pays hospitals for the full range of services necessary for the patient:

• surgery and anesthesia;
• instrumental and laboratory research;
• medicines from the National List of Medicines and consumables;
• postoperative round-the-clock medical and nursing care, pain relief, drug therapy;
• food in the hospital;
• medical rehabilitation in the acute period to prevent the occurrence of postoperative complications.

On the site There are medicines , you can check the availability of medicines in hospitals.

At the same time, the patient needs to take care of personal belongings that he will need both in the hospital and in another city if he needs to travel to another region for the operation.

Do not postpone important medical procedures to maintain health and quality of life.

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