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Published: 1 June, 2011, 09:51
Edited: 1 June, 2011, 10:12
It was one Russian child's dying wish to a president - a new hospital for cancer-suffering children. As the doors of the center are now about to officially open, the memory of Dima, who sadly did not survive his illness, will live on.
It was supposed to be a happy ending. Six years ago, Dima Rogachev was successfully recovering from leukemia. He was already strong enough to give then-President Vladimir Putin a tour around his overcrowded cancer ward and insightful enough to ask when the country would build a new, more spacious hospital.
Out of 5,000 Russian kids who are diagnosed with cancer every year, fewer than half manage to get specialized medical help. Dima, who was born in the small town of Kaluga in central Russia, was sent to Moscow for treatment. He is one of the very few.
Elena has not left the ward of her sick daughter for six months for fear of contracting an infection. Her little girl was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia last year, but so far has not responded well to treatment. Little Varya has already suffered a number of infections, despite being dosed up with antibiotics.
And her primary diagnosis is still unclear.
“Doctors have voiced many theories of what’s wrong with her, but nobody can come up with a diagnosis. My only hope is going to Moscow. They have better laboratories there. Their doctors are more experienced…What baffles doctors here in Kaluga may turn out to be a routine diagnosis for Moscow doctors,” says Elena Vlasova, mother of the sick child.
Elena hopes his daughter will be sent to Moscow, to a new top-notch child cancer hospital that will be able to accommodate up to 500 children at a time. The facility has its own air-purification system, which will maintain hygiene without committing parents to months-on-end hospital confinement and without subjecting children to loads of antiviral drugs.
It looks like something from the future, but it is ready to accept patients right now.
“We won’t be able to cure everybody,” explains Alexey Maschan, deputy head of the Federal Center for Children’s Hematology, Oncology and Immunology.
“About 30 per cent of children who are diagnosed with cancer nowadays can’t be cured because we don’t yet fully understand the cancer mechanisms or the drugs have not yet been invented. Yet we’ll still be able to help thousands of children who, until recently, had only two options – search for a treatment abroad or die at home.”
Two years after asking the president for the new center, Dima died of a lung hemorrhage. But his legacy will be a hospital named after him.
It is the only hospital of its kind in Russia and possibly all of Europe, because every little thing here is designed with childhood cancer in mind. It has the best equipment in the world for treating tumors, and employs some of the brightest doctors and scientists.
For all its uniqueness, most parents would give everything for their kids never to go near this hospital. Others would do everything in their power for their children to be here.
11:52 01/06/2011ALL NEWS
Court orders to recover 21 mln rbls in damages from officials. |
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/155203.html
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ST PETERSBURG, June 1 (Itar-Tass) — St.Petersburg's Moscow district court ruled to recover 21 million roubles from the officials convicted for fraud with military uniforms, the Prosecutor General's Office reported on its website on Wednesday.
"The court met the claim of the Western Military District prosecutors and ruled on collecting damages from former head of the stores service of the Leningrad Military District Igor Galkin and director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Leningrad Works for Repairs of Military Uniforms and Accessories" of the Defense Ministry Sergei Kukhno," the PGO said.
In November 2010, Galkin and Kukhno were given prison sentences. At that time, the court refused to meet the claim to collect 21 million roubles in damages from them. The prosecutors appealed against this decision at a higher court. Eventually, the prosecutors' claim was granted.
Moscow to double city doctors' salaries by 2016
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110601/164360247.html
11:17 01/06/2011
The average monthly salary of Moscow doctors will more than double to 80,000 rubles ($2,850) in five years, the head of the city's health care department said in an interview with Russian daily Izvestia published on Wednesday.
The department will soon publish its new health care development plan for the five years through 2016, Leonid Pechatnikov said.
"As for doctors, their average salary should increase to 80,000 rubles, but it will be more difficult to earn this money than now," he said.
Doctors in Russia remain in the list of top 10 jobs with the lowest salaries, along with nurses, shop assistants, secretaries and street cleaners. As of 2010, the average doctor's salary in Moscow was officially recorded as 35,600 rubles ($1,270) a month, while for Russia in general the figure is half that - about 18,300 rubles ($650).
The Russian authorities have moved to improve the situation and modernize the country's health care system, particularly by introducing a reform stipulating that medical institutions across Russia will no longer be funded directly from the state budget starting from 2013, but will receive money from the state insurance fund.
Under the new system, designed to improve the effectiveness of state medical expenditures, the money will be allocated to Russian hospitals and clinics according to the number of patients they treat.
MOSCOW, June 1 (RIA Novosti)
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