History of the Institute
History of the Consultative Polyclinic
On the 20th of June, the Institute put into the operation an ambulatory in order to diagnose and prepare patients for in-treatment.
On the 14th of July 1941, the ambulatory and the Institute were evacuated to Pyatigorsk, and in the summer 1942 – to Tashkent.
After Odesa’s liberation on the 12th of September, the Institute returned to Odesa and started working on the basis of the eye clinic of the Odesa Medical Institute.
In January 1946 after the building reconstruction, the Institute moved to its own building and ambulatory work continued. At that time the ambulatory was located in limited areas of the main building. Medical equipment was not enough. The staff did their best to provide medical care to patients.
A new building for the ambulatory was constructed in 1952. It placed general and specialized ophthalmic offices: children’s offices, admission of children with refraction and strabismus anomalies, a glaucoma dispensary, a dispensary office for the near-sighted. During this period, the number of visits was 60-70 thousand per year.
Thanks to the active work of Institute’s administration, in order to improve and solve issues of medical care of the population, conditions were created for improving the medical and diagnostic process. In 1958, a new building was completed, which had 8 offices and made it possible to increase their number to 27, among them 8 were specialized offices of departments of glaucoma, corneal transplantation, vascular tract, retinal detachment, trauma, burns, pediatric pathology, eye tumors, as well as orthoptic dispensary rooms for short-sighted and general ophthalmology.
In 1971, Institute’s outpatient clinic was renamed the Consultative Polyclinic, which is now a modern highly specialized department of the Filatov Institute, where advisory and diagnostic assistance is provided to adults and children sent by medical and preventive institutions of Ukraine, residents of near- and far abroad, and all patients who have visited without a referral.
