Rendering of high-technological medical help will be started in Yamal for the first time

Rendering of high-technological medical help will be started in Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug for the first time. The regional clinical hospital in the town Salekhard received the right to conduct complicated medical operations with use of high technologies. High-technological medical help here will be rendered on 6 directions: operative gynecology (except ancillary assisted reproductive technologies), oncology, cardiovascular, abdominal surgery, urology, traumatic surgery and orthopedics.

The central town hospital in Noyabrsk received the license for rendering of high-technological help on the direction «traumatology». Operations on endoprosthesis replacement will be conducted there. This information was given to a correspondent of IA «Sever-Press» by the press-secretary of the regional department of health protection Olga Shulyak. Both establishments are provided with modern equipment. High-technological operations will be done by high-qualified specialists – candidates of medical sciences. The central hospital of Noviy Urengoy is also preparing to receive necessary permission.
The director of the department of health protection Nikolay Vinokurov considers development of high-technological help in Yamal as big achievement of Yamal health protection. Now it is possible to fulfill some complicated medical operations without sending patients beyond limits of the region.
At that, Yamal continues cooperating with leading clinics and medical centers of Russia. Today people of Yamal receive high-technological and specialized help in Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Kurgan, Moscow, Saint Petersburg and other regions of the country. The list of medical establishments, to where patients of the region are sent, grows every year. Such new centers as the Federal center for traumatology, orthopedics and endoprosthesis replacement and the Federal center for cardiovascular surgery in Smolensk, the Federal center for traumatology and orthopedics in Barnaul were opened.
Patients are sent for receiving of high-technological medical help at the expenses of the federal and the regional budgets. Last year 921 inhabitants of Yamal, including 274 children, received medical help owing to the federal budget, and 6626 people – to the regional budget. 460 million rubles were spent for these aims. Expenditures for travel to the place of medical treatment and back were compensated for all the patients. This year 463 million rubles were allocated from the regional budget for rendering of high-technological and specialized help. This year about 4000 patients received medical help owing to the regional budget, about 800 – to the federal budget.