Borys Todurov
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Borys Todurov Борис Тодуров | |
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| Born | 2 January 1965 |
| Occupation | Doctor, cardiac surgeon |
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Borys Todurov (Ukrainian: Борис Тодуров; born 2 January 1965, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian cardiac surgeon, professor, honoured doctor of Ukraine, director of The Heart Institute, public figure, and blogger. He carried out the first heart transplant in Ukraine. He is an advocate of economics-based healthcare management and transplant science.
Borys Todurov was born in Kyiv on 2 January 1965. His father was Mikhail Ivanovich Todurov, who was an assistant locomotive driver. His mother was Nina Ivanovna Todurova, a rural doctor. Both were from Yalta village. his brother is Ivan Todurov. His wife is Olena Todurova, with two children, Mikhail and Natalia.
From 2000 to 2003, he was the Head of the Department of Transplantation and Heart Surgery with a group of extra corporeal technologies and biomaterials, Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology, Kyiv
From 2003 to 2006, he was the Deputy Director for Transplantology, Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology, Kyiv[1] [2]
From 2006 to 2008, he was Initiator and co-author of a project on construction of the most modern medical facility in Kyiv - the Kyiv City Heart Center.
From 2008 to 2013, he was the Head of City Clinical Hospital "The Kyiv Heart Center".
From 2013 to the present, he is the Director of The Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine (formerly The Kyiv Heart Center), Kyiv.
From September 2016 to the present, he is the Head of the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Roentgen-Endovascular and Extracorporeal Technologies of Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education.[3]
In December 2016, he was recognised as the "Person of the Year" according to Novoye Vremya Magazine for saving lives and innovating in medicine.[4]
In January 2017, he came under an information attack from a team carrying out efforts on behalf of acting Minister Ulyana Suprun. He received an invitation from two clinics from the European Union and one from Georgia to relocate the entire clinical team, but refused to leave Ukraine.[5][6][7]
Activity as a doctor
Borys Todurov has 30 years of experience as a cardiac surgeon. During this time, he carried out more than 5 thousand surgical operations.[4]
In 2000, he performed a heart transplant, the first in Ukraine.[8][2][4]
In 2001, for the first time in Ukraine, he conducted the Batista procedure (an alternative to heart transplantation).[9][2]
The same year, for the first time in Ukraine, he carried out a thoracoscopic surgery for a child with congenital heart disease.[9]
In 2002, for the first time in Ukraine, he made a thrombectomy from the inferior vena cava in a complex with nephrectomy under the conditions of artificial circulation.[9]
From 2000 to 2007, he performed four heart transplants, three of which were successful.[10]
On 12 July 2016, Borys Todurov for the first time in Ukraine, conducted the implantation of an artificial heart. This cost of the device, reported to be EUR 120K, was covered by a German clinic though an installment plan to The Heart Institute, owing to Todurov's reputation amongst international cardiac surgeons. Part of the funds was collected at a charity race and through a crowdfunding platform. [11] [12] [13] [8] [14] [15] There were no state funds spent to implement this innovation. Nevertheless, President Poroshenko in his New Year's greetings speech noted the artificial heart transplantation as one of the top country's achievements in 2016.[16] [17] [18]
Prevention
Boris Todurov is an active blogger on the topic of cardiovascular prevention. Since 2016, he manages his own YouTube channel, as well as a column at the tabloid Ukrainska Pravda. He promotes a healthy lifestyle and heart check-up at least as often as Ukrainians make checkups for their cars.
International peacekeeping missions
In 1999, B. Todurov organized the humanitarian mission to Egypt, providing surgery in Cairo for 16 children with congenital heart disease.[9]
In 2002, Todurov visited Iraq, where he worked on creating a joint Ukrainian-Iraqi project to save children. As a part of this mission, he provided surgery in Baghdad for two children with congenital heart disease.[9][18]
In 2005, Todurov organised a humanitarian mission to Kosovo. There he performed three operations for children with congenital heart disease.[9]
2006 - humanitarian mission to Azerbaijan. He provided congenital heart disease surgery for five children from low-income refugee families from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict region.[9][19]
In March 2014 he organised a humanitarian mission to Crimea, a week before it was occupied by Russian military troops. Todurov with his team of surgeons and anaesthesiologists attempted to maintain the medical facilities of Feodosia military base, which was besieged by Russians at that time. Doctors brought medications and ambulance dressings in case of military combat. On leaving the Crimea peninsula, Todurov was asked to operate on an elderly woman with acute myocardial infarction. Later it turned out that the patient was the mother of Sergei Aksyonov, the self-proclaimed Minister of the Crimea.[12][11]
The Heart Institute
The Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine provides highly specialized assistance to patients with cardiovascular pathology and surgical care for patients with heart defects. It was created in 2008 as the city clinical hospital "The Kyiv Heart Center" following the instance of the German clinic Herzzentrum, the German Cardiology Center in Munich.
On 26 December 2013 Todurov influenced to change the communal ownership to the national one, with Ministry of Health as executor of the estate. This change helped to save The Heart Center from intentional bankruptcy and privatization from the side of state officials.
Every year The Heart Institute provides medical care to patients from all regions of Ukraine. In 2016 Institute performed the most cardiac surgeries in the country - 5940, being ahead of the Amosov Heart Institute and Strazhesko Institute of Cardiology.[20]
Each third CABG operation in Ukraine takes place at The Heart Institute (1,436 operations, for comparison at the Amosov Institute - 844 operations). Each third stent in Ukraine is installed in The Heart Institute (2593 interventions; for comparison at Amosov Institute with 449).[21]
At The Heart Institute, Todurov organized internal eHealth system and quality management system. As a result, the percentage of unsuccessful operations is lower than in the average clinic in Europe and does not reach 1%. This result made it possible for the institute to become in 2015 the first hospital in the CIS which met the requirements of international medical accreditation from the British company QHA Trent. The availability of this certificate gives to foreign insurance companies the basis to pay for the treatment of foreign citizens at The Heart Institute. In 2016 patients came from Azerbaijan, Greece, Israel, United States, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Libya and other countries. [22] [23]
The institute is a permanent partner of the Diplomatic Corps stationed in Ukraine. It helped many foreign delegates and members of their families. In December 2016, the mother of the US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was operated on at The Heart Institute.[24]
At the entrance to The Heart Institute, along with the flag of Ukraine and the corporate flag, there is the flag of the Crimean Mejlis. Mustafa Dzhemilev knelt before this flag during his visit to the Institute.[25] [26]
The Heart Institute has been the object of encroachment by political figures repeatedly. [27] [22]
