Valeri Bidny

Kyiv press photo. Kyiv’s vice-Mayor Valeri Bidny, left, shows “City of Kyiv’s Honor Sign”, before he handed it to Munich’s Children rehabilitation center director Hubertus fon Foss, upper right, for the 6-year cooperation in Kyiv, Thursday, Oct 11, 2001. In the lower right corner - Bavarian Social Policy Ministry State Secretary George Smidt. This day the 5th International Ukrainian – Bavarian symposium “Medical and Social rehabilitation of children, suffering from the nervous system affection” opened in the Kyiv’s Mayor’s Office. The city administration has been already cooperating with the government of Bavaria for 6 years. In particular, within this period of time Bavarian party supplied financial and practical aid, new medical equipment. Besides, the first in Ukrainian center on rehabilitation of cerebral palsy patients-children was established in Ukraine. Hundreds of children already passed a course of treatment in the center. Photo by Victor Pobedinski/ UNIAN