On November 20, 2023, at the Transfiguration Cathedral in Vinnytsia, a working meeting was held between Metropolitan Symeon of Vinnytsia and Bar and Director of the Podil Regional Oncology Center Serhiy Peregonchuk. The meeting was attended by Natalia Lapshova, a psychologist at the medical center, Archdeacon Vladyslav Demchenko, secretary of the Vinnytsia-Bar Diocese, and Archimandrite Sophroniy (Chupryna).
The parties discussed cooperation within the framework of the recently established Patient's School at the Oncology Center, which involves the work of psychologists, lawyers, social workers, rehabilitation therapists and clergy with cancer patients and their relatives to help them learn to live with the disease.
The issue of involving a medical chaplain in this social information and education project was one of the main issues discussed by the Diocesan Bishop and the director of the medical center. The parties agreed on steps in this direction that will be implemented in the near future.
Press service of the Diocese of Vinnytsia and Bar of the UOC (OCU)
