The Mykolaiv City Council committee approved the transfer of a grant of over ₴750 thousand to Maternity Hospital №3

Members of the relevant committee of the Mykolaiv City Council supported a draft resolution to approve an agreement on the transfer of a grant from the city budget to the regional budget for the maintenance of Maternity Hospital №3. The sum in question is 754,800 hryvnias for medicines, dressings, payment for services and heating.

This was announced during a meeting of the City Council’s standing committee on human rights, children, the family, the rule of law, transparency, anti-corruption policy, local self-government, councillors’ activities and ethics on Monday, 19 October, according to NikVesti.

Iryna Shamrai, Head of the Health Department at Mykolaiv City Council, noted that the draft resolution provides for the approval of an agreement on the transfer of a subvention from the city budget to the regional budget for the current expenditure of Maternity Hospital No. 3 and constitutes the final stage of the fund transfer procedure.

«This is the third step, which is now the final one. The first was the decision to transfer these funds, the second was the approval of the agreement.» The third step is the council’s decision to approve this agreement between the city’s local authority and the regional council regarding the transfer of funds for the maintenance of Maternity Hospital №3,» explained Iryna Shamrai.

She noted that the funds have already been transferred. The total amount is 754,853 гривень. This covers the facility’s registered financial obligations.

Specifically, 313,585 гривні have been allocated for medicines and dressing materials, 301,111 гривні for the payment of services, and a further 140,157 гривні for heating.

During the discussion, councillors asked for clarification on the period covered by this sum. Iryna Shamrai explained that these were invoices received after 9 April 2026, but relating to expenditure incurred prior to that date, when the maternity hospital was still owned by the city.

«These are the invoices received after 9 April, but all these expenses were incurred before 9 April,» she explained.

Thus, the funds were used to settle liabilities that arose whilst the maternity hospital was owned by the city. Following the vote, five members of the committee supported the draft resolution, none voted against it, and one abstained.

As a reminder, a regional perinatal centre has been established on the site of the former Maternity Hospital №3 in Mykolaiv. It will operate as a branch of the Mykolaiv Regional Clinical Hospital.

Even before the building was transferred, the city had commissioned a project to convert the maternity hospital into a perinatal centre. According to Oleksandr Sienkevych, the design organisation has already completed the work; however, the city council is now unable to pay for it directly, as the property no longer belongs to the city.

The city council therefore plans to transfer a grant to the regional authorities to settle the bill for the design work already carried out. A draft resolution to this effect is to be prepared for the city council’s September session.

Transfer of Maternity Hospital №3 to the region

It should be recalled that in 2025, medical staff at Maternity Hospital №3 and the Mykolaiv Regional Emergency Medical Service went several months without receiving their salaries. The delay in paying the medical staff’s salaries was attributed to the fact that the contract with the National Health Service of Ukraine was signed later than planned. The debts were settled in March 2025.

In January 2026, it emerged that Maternity Hospital №3 was not receiving sufficient funding from the National Health Service of Ukraine due to the critical demographic situation in the city. The facility required additional funding from the city budget.

Subsequently, councillors of the Mykolaiv City Council supported a decision to reorganise the city’s healthcare network, which involved the creation of a cluster hospital and the transfer of one of the maternity hospitals to the ownership of the Mykolaiv region.

On 9 April, at a session of the Mykolaiv City Council, councillors approved the transfer of Maternity Hospital №3 to the ownership of the Mykolaiv region. The Mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkevych, stated that integrating the maternity hospital into the regional hospital was necessary to retain the staff.

On 16 April, councillors of the Mykolaiv Regional Council approved its transfer to regional ownership. On 28 May, the Mykolaiv Regional Council approved the act of accepting Maternity Hospital №3 into the region’s ownership as an integral property complex. The councillors reduced the hospital’s authorised capital to 1,000 hryvnias.

In June, it was reported at the regional council’s environmental committee meetings that the maternity hospital had debts. A figure of 4 million hryvnias was initially cited.

On 18 June, the Mykolaiv Regional Council voted to merge Maternity Hospital №3 with the regional clinical hospital. In addition, the councillors increased its authorised capital to 5.5 million hryvnias.

The Mykolaiv Regional Council must now complete the reorganisation of Maternity Hospital №3. To this end, at the next session, councillors must transfer the hospital’s assets to the regional clinical hospital and make the necessary amendments to its articles of association. There are plans to establish a branch called the «Perinatal Centre» on the premises of the maternity hospital.