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On Saturday, June 14, 1His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr received at his residence in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra a delegation of leading oncology physicians from Georgia. Taking part in the meeting also were Chairman of Synodal Department of Charity and Social Ministry of the UOC archdeacon Sergiy Kosovskyi, and representatives of the Ministry of Health Protection of Ukraine.

During the conversation the issues of embodiment of the joint projects of the Department of Charity and Social Ministry, the Ministry of Health Protection and non-governmental organizations, engaged in spiritual patronage in the course of palliative treatment of those in need. It concerns those people which the medicine is unable to help any more. In the essence, the given project is a step towards the joint activity of the Church and state in the social sphere.

The Archpastor also greeted the guests on the Day of the Medical worker celebrated on June, 15 and wished God's help in their business, noting that "the Lord trusted you the most responsible affair- helping people in need".

As a souvenir of the meeting His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr blessed the guests with the icons of the Holy Trinity and presented the photo albums "Metropolitan Volodymyr: Ukrainian Orthodox Church... it's my whole life there".

Upon completion of the meeting the guests were suggested an excursion in the Caves of Lavra where they could pray at the reliquary with incorruptible relics of St. Agapit of Caves.
This visit of the Georgian health professionals to Ukraine was a return visit, after the visit of the joint delegation of the UOC and the Ministry of Health Protection of Ukraine, which met with His Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II and the Minister of Health Protection of the country.

Source:
http://orthodox.org.ua/eng/node/230

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