Borys Todurov

In January 2017, he came under an information attack from a team carrying out efforts on behalf of acting Minister Ulyana Suprun. He received an invitation from two clinics from the European Union and one from Georgia to relocate the entire clinical team, but refused to leave Ukraine.

On 1 January 2017 Todurov published a video message criticizing the activities of Ministry of Health. The video collected about 500,000 views on the Facebook and YouTube, and was the reason for the large-scale campaign against the cardiac surgeon from the pharmaceutical lobbyists and supporters of the acting Minister Suprun.

On 9 January 2017, Borys Todurov's official page in Facebook was blocked, then it was blocked a personal account too.

From September 2016 to the present, he is the Head of the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Roentgen-Endovascular and Extracorporeal Technologies of Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education.

In December 2016, he was recognized as the "Person of the Year" according to “Novoye Vremya Magazine" "For saving lives and innovating in medicine".

On 12 July 2016, Borys Todurov for the first time in Ukraine, he conducted the implantation of an artificial heart. This device cost EUR 120K. The German clinic made the courtesy of installment plan to The Heart Institute, owing to Todurov's reputation amongst international cardiac surgeons. Part of the funds was collected at a charity race and through a crowdfunding platform.

There were no state funds spent to implement this innovation. Nevertheless, President Poroshenko in his New Year's greetings speech noted the artificial heart transplantation as one of the top country's achievements in 2016.

Boris Todurov is an active blogger on the topic of cardiovascular prevention. Since 2016, he manages his own YouTube channel, as well as a column at the tabloid Ukrainska Pravda. He promotes a healthy lifestyle and heart check-up at least as often as Ukrainians make checkups for their cars.

Every year The Heart Institute provides medical care to patients from all regions of Ukraine. In 2016 Institute performed the most cardiac surgeries in the country - 5940, being ahead of the Amosov Heart Institute and Strazhesko Institute of Cardiology.

The Institute is a permanent partner of the diplomatic corps stationed in Ukraine. It helped many foreign delegates and members of their families. In December 2016, the mother of the US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was operated at The Heart Institute.

On 13 November 2016, on the TV show “The Cabinets” on Channel 5 Todurov made a negative response on results of Health Minister Suprun's team.

In his video, Todurov criticized the failure of procurement of cardiovascular medical supplies with the budget of 2016 up till the year ended (364 million UAH). According to his calculations, they could save tens of thousands of lives. The team of the Ministry of Health, headed by the acting Minister of Health Ulyana Suprun did not accomplish the procurement. As a result, in early 2017 Ukrainian patients didn't have the necessary drugs and supplies.

Independent analytical group FactCheckUA checked Todurov's words and found that in 2015 the time between the announcement of procurement tender by international intermediaries and the delivery of drugs was 11 months. The first procurement tender on 2016 budget was announced only on 28 December 2016. FactCheck stressed that it wasn't buying drugs, as claimed by the MOH.

At The Heart Institute, Todurov organized internal eHealth system and quality management system. As a result, the percentage of unsuccessful operations is lower than in the average clinic in Europe and does not reach 1%. This result made it possible for the Institute to become in 2015 the first hospital in the CIS which met the requirements of international medical accreditation from the British company QHA Trent. The availability of this certificate gives to foreign insurance companies the basis to pay for the treatment of foreign citizens at The Heart Institute. In 2016 patients came from Azerbaijan, Greece, Israel, United States, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Libya and other countries.

On 6 January, Todurov denied these accusations, referring to the MOH order (No. 546) of 26 August 2015, which sets for state healthcare facilities the retail prices for this drug. They were not exceeded when purchased.

In March 2014 he organized a humanitarian mission to Crimea, a week before it was occupied by Russian military troops. Todurov and his team of surgeons and anaesthesiologists attempted to enforce medical facilities of Feodosia military base, which was besieged by Russians at that time. Doctors brought medications and ambulance dressings in case of military combat. At the exit from the Crimea peninsula, Todurov was asked to operate an elderly woman with acute myocardial infarction. Later it turned out that the patient was the mother of Sergei Aksyonov, the self-proclaimed minister of the Crimea.

Borys Todurov has visited the combat operational zone more than 10 times since the beginning of the war in the Donbass region of Ukraine. There he conducts surgeries on the spot and makes charitable donations of medicines and military uniforms to Ukrainian soldiers. In the summer of 2014, he visited Slovyansk, Donetsk region. Doctors brought medicines and took three wounded warriors for treatment at The Heart Institute. In addition, Borys Todurov makes surgery for civilians from the ATO zone. He conducts advisory receptions in Kramatorsk, Bakhmut, Severodonetsk and Lysychansk.

From 2013 to the present, he is the Director of The Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine (formerly The Kyiv Heart Center), Kyiv

On 26 December 2013 Todurov influenced to change the communal ownership to the national one, with Ministry of Health as executor of the estate. This change helped to save The Heart Center from intentional bankruptcy and privatization from the side of state officials.

In 2011, he entered into a public debate with Health Minister Ilya Yemets (21 December 2010 – 17 May 2011) in the context of healthcare reform. As a response, Yemets tried to lower the rank of The Heart Institute from high-level cardiac care facility to an ordinary hospital for the treatment of patients with myocardial infarction or stroke.

From 2008-2013, he was the Head of City Clinical Hospital "The Kyiv Heart Center"

The Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine provides highly specialized assistance to patients with cardiovascular pathology and surgical care for patients with heart defects. It was created in 2008 as the city clinical hospital "The Kyiv Heart Center" following the instance of the German clinic Herzzentrum, the German Cardiology Center in Munich.

From 2006-2008, he was Initiator and co-author of a project on construction of the most modern medical facility in Kyiv - the Kyiv City Heart Center.

2006 - humanitarian mission to Azerbaijan. He operated congenital heart disease of five children from low-income refugee families from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict region.

In 2005, Todurov organized a humanitarian mission to Kosovo. There he performed three operations for children with congenital heart disease.

From 2003-2006, he was the Deputy Director for Transplantology, Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology, Kyiv

In 2002, for the first time in Ukraine, he made a thrombectomy from the inferior vena cava in a complex with nephrectomy under the conditions of artificial circulation.

In 2002, Todurov visited Iraq, where he worked on creating a joint Ukrainian-Iraqi project to save children. As a part of this mission, he made two surgeries in Baghdad for children with congenital heart disease.

In 2001, for the first time in Ukraine, he conducted the Batista procedure (an alternative to heart transplantation).

From 2000-2003, he was the Head of the Department of Transplantation and Heart Surgery with a group of extra corporeal technologies and biomaterials, Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology, Kyiv

In 2000, he performed a heart transplant; for the first time in Ukraine.

From 2000 to 2007, he performed four heart transplants, three of which were successful.

In 1999, B. Todurov organized the humanitarian mission to Egypt and made surgeries in Cairo for 16 children with congenital heart disease.

Borys Todurov (Ukrainian: Борис Тодуров ; born 2 January 1965, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian cardiac surgeon, professor, honored doctor of Ukraine, director of The Heart Institute, public figure, and blogger. He carried out the first heart transplant in Ukraine. He is an advocate of economics-based healthcare management and civilized transplantology.

Borys Todurov was born in Kyiv on 2 January 1965. His father was Mikhail Ivanovich Todurov, who was an assistant locomotive driver. His mother was Nina Ivanovna Todurova, a rural doctor. Both were from Yalta village. his brother is Ivan Todurov. His wife is Olena Todurova. His children are Mikhail and Natalia.