On November 17, 2022, on World Prematurity Day, Nortal, Skelia’s parent company, purchased simulation equipment for the Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology of the Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University. Starting next year, more than 500 pediatric and family medicine interns, training cycles audience in the specialties “Neonatology”, “Pediatric Anesthesiology”, “Obstetrics and Gynecology”, “General Practice, Family Medicine”, internships, graduate students, researchers, and medical professionals, will use it annually to learn emergency care and resuscitation of newborns and infants.
The war has increased stress levels, causing the risk of premature birth among Ukrainian women. Therefore, the issue of thorough practical training of doctors who will take care of various complex and emergency cases became extremely important.
Nortal allocated funds for the purchase of equipment for the training of future pediatricians from its corporate fund to support Ukraine. This is not Nortal’s first social initiative in our country – Nortal also provides financial assistance based on special requests from Skelia employees in Ukraine.
Nortal and its employees around the world plan to continue to help Ukraine and implement various projects to support and develop Ukraine in the future. The focus will be on those initiatives proposed by the company’s specialists.
About Lviv National Medical University named after Danylo Halytskyi
Lviv National Medical University, named after Danylo Halytskyi, is one of the largest and oldest medical, educational institutions in Ukraine. Every year, the university welcomes approximately 20,000 people, including 6,273 students, 1,164 interns, and 11,593 postgraduate education cadets.
Founded in 2000, Nortal is an international company engaged in strategic consulting and technology implementation. The company employs more than 1,700 people and has 24 offices in Europe, the United States and the Middle East. Nortal provides world-class strategic consulting, software development, product and customer experience, project management and design services. In May 2022, Nortal acquired the IT company Skelia together with subsidiaries in Ukraine and Poland.
Skelia was founded in 2008. Skelia specializes in creating cross-border IT organizations. The company has more than 350 employees, mainly in Ukraine and Poland. Skelia serves clients in 10 countries around the world and works through a network of offices in the Benelux countries, Poland, Ukraine and the USA.