All over the world, December 5 is celebrated as the International Volunteer Day – International Volunteer Day. Volunteers of the Department of Biomedical Engineering every day help doctors and technical specialists of the State Institution of the Institute of Medical Radiology and Oncology. S.P. Grigoriev of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine in the fight for the lives of patients. The University has long and fruitfully cooperated with this medical institution; it is the main base of practice for training specialists. And now, in a pandemic, our young people are selflessly and courageously risking their own health and providing much-needed help to doctors. Volunteers work in a pandemic, helping staff cope with large numbers of patients. Thank you for the selfless volunteer work to the students of the BIBMI-19-1 group Vladislav Polokhova and Pavel Pelykh, who perform auxiliary work on the maintenance of the spiral computed tomography (SCT) system, Elizaveta Kovalenko and Anastasia Litvin, who carry out assignments for the preparation of paper medical documentation and recording the results SKT to accelerate patient care. In conditions when staff expansion is impossible, and some of the institute’s employees are sick, our volunteers, working the second shift after the busy one, help to support the diagnostic process.

Our volunteers are our saviors!