The funeral of Yuriy Spizhenko

Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Chairman deputy Adam Martynyuk during funeral of ex-minister of health of Ukraine Yuriy Spizhenko in Kapitanovka settlement (Kiev region), on Wednesday, December 8, 2010. The cause of death was myocardial. Yuriy Spizhenko an academician of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Minister of Health USSR and the first health minister of independent Ukraine, people's deputy of two convocations. In 2009, Yuriy Spizhenko opened the clinic, located near Kiev in the village Kapitanovka. This hospital is unique in the country, equipped with the CyberKnife for the removal canser tumors. Photo by Aleksandr Sinitsa / UNIAN