Chernihiv region: medical records of the times of the post-war famine

December 21, 2019. News on Suspilny. The plot tells about a medical journal with records of patients' illnesses and deaths in 1946–1947, which was found in the archive of an outpatient clinic in Chernihiv Oblast. The magazine was kept in a hiding place for more than 70 years, and later it was transferred to the National Holodomor Genocide Museum in Kyiv.

More than a thousand patient records were recorded in the journal of the outpatient clinic of general practice and family medicine of the Bakhmatsky district. Doctor Oleg Kalynyak, who found the document in the hospital archive, talks about numerous cases of diseases and deaths of people who had various official diagnoses, but suffered from hunger.

Commenting: resident of the village of Kovpinka Valentina Dovzhenko, doctor of the Ruban outpatient clinic of general practice of family medicine, Chernihiv region Oleg Kalynyak, researcher of the history of the Holodomor Rostyslav Martyniuk.

Vlada Prizova, Dmytro Panov, Tetyana Los, Vitaly Korovko worked on the plot.