Interregional Centers for Pediatric Surgery (MRC)

2022: Interregional centers for pediatric surgery began to be created in Russia

In May 2022, interregional centers for pediatric surgery (MRC) began to be created in Russia. The first such institutions will open in Khabarovsk, Primorye, Yakutia and the Irkutsk region.

According to TASS, citing the press service of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASIs), an interregional center for pediatric surgery in Khabarovsk is being created on the basis of two medical institutions: the A.K. Piotrovich Children's Regional Clinical Hospital and the Professor G.S. Postol Perinatal Center.

Interregional centers for pediatric surgery began to be created in Russia

This will allow small patients to receive the necessary surgical treatment within the Far Eastern Federal District, as well as reduce the period of rehabilitation after the intervention, "said Yevgeny Nikonov, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Khabarovsk Territory for Social Affairs.

It is planned that regional MRCs will specialize in specific rare pathologies. In the Khabarovsk hospital named after Piotrovich now carry out 4 thousand operations a year, and in the Perinatal Center in the neonatal department - 457. With the advent of the center, one specialist will perform about 20 operations per year instead of five, which will ultimately affect the quality of medical care.

The initiative to create the MRC was addressed to President Vladimir Putin in December 2021 by the Director General of the ISI Svetlana Chupsheva. The Russian Association of Pediatric Surgeons has developed a concept that has become part of the National Social Initiative (NSI) and is being introduced by the agency throughout the country.

By May 2022, there are no medical organizations in the administrative centers of all federal districts that could provide methodological, advisory, medical and evacuation support to children's hospitals in the regions. As a result, most complex patients receive treatment only in clinics in Moscow and St. Petersburg. According to the ASIs press service, child mortality rates increase significantly when moving from the country's western border to the east. Thus, child mortality in the Far Eastern Federal District is 70% higher than in the NWFD.^[1]

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