The Odessa City Health Department is actively engaged in ensuring medical service accessibility for persons with disabilities.
This encompasses the installation of ramps, elevators, the provision of accessible restrooms, navigational aids, and facilitating independent movement for wheelchair users within healthcare facilities.
Efforts are underway in healthcare institutions to create a barrier-free environment for patients, including: establishing designated parking spaces, laying tactile paving, equipping entrances with ramps, ensuring elevators are operational, adapting restrooms to meet the needs of individuals with disabilities, and providing informational navigation in Braille.
Additional examination rooms for patients, including those with special needs, are available on the ground floors.
The principle of barrier-free access is being implemented in all outpatient and inpatient medical facilities. Furthermore, renovations have been carried out to enhance accessibility at the Primary Healthcare Center No. 2 and consultative diagnostic centers No. 20 and No. 29.
At the city's clinical hospitals No. 1, No. 10, No. 11, and the Children’s Clinical Hospital No. 3, work is ongoing to establish inclusive wards that meet modern accessibility standards for patients with various disabilities, including those requiring constant assistance.
This includes equipping wards with functional beds, vital signs monitoring systems, ceiling or mobile lifts, and other necessary facilities.
Thanks to the support of charitable foundations, city healthcare institutions have additionally received inclusive equipment, such as gynecological chairs with lifts and more.
