On January 22, 2024, the fifth lecture was held - a meeting from the series of lectures on rehabilitation medicine according to the joint German-Ukrainian project "Partnership between hospitals - partners strengthen health" in cooperation with Altmühlseeklinik Hensoltshöhe (Germany), with KP "Poltava Regional Clinical Hospital named after M.V. Sklifosovskyi (Ukraine).
The lecture "Chronic pain disorder - pain disease" was prepared by Dr. Friedbert Herm, Chief Physician of the hospital, orthopedist and specialist in physical and rehabilitation medicine.
Since 2014, Dr. Friedbert Herm has been the chief physician of the Altmühlseeklinik. He also specializes in pain therapy, manual medicine, and social medicine, which he implements in daily clinical practice for the benefit of orthopedic, oncology, and psychosomatic patients. The chief physician has a permit to further training for physicians from the Bavarian State Medical Association for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Nataliya Merkel, senior doctor of the geriatric rehabilitation department, helped with the translation and led the lecture.
The project 'Partnership between hospitals - partners strengthen health' is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ) as part of the grant program 'Support of partnerships in the field of health care' of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).