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The 2nd Traumatology Department has opened at the Vitebsk Regional Clinical Hospital. The new conditions will allow the specialists of the VOKB to reach a higher level of providing trauma and orthopedic care, which, in turn, will help significantly advance the implementation of the Head of State's instructions on reducing waiting times for high-tech surgical interventions and diagnostic studies, including operations for large joint replacement.
The opening ceremony was attended by Vyacheslav Durnov, Deputy Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee, and Lyudmila Kovaleva, Deputy Head of the Main Department for Healthcare of the Regional Executive Committee.
– The work of a doctor is not easy, so the conditions in which he works, with what mood, the patient will feel first of all, – noted Vyacheslav Durnov. – Therefore, so much attention is paid to equipping the healthcare institution with modern equipment, creating comfortable conditions for everyone – both staff and patients. New operating rooms will allow for faster surgical interventions and reduce queues for them. This is the beginning of the path to transforming the regional hospital into a major center for providing assistance to people. The regional budget also helps this positive process, and the hospital management knows where to move forward, in particular, towards such significant changes as the construction of a new building for the VOKB.
The new department is designed for 30 beds and includes both standard wards and wards of increased comfort.
By the beginning of the operation of the new department, the operating room has been renovated and equipped with modern medical diagnostic equipment and instruments. Orthopedic tables have been purchased. The department also has an arthroscopic system, an image intensifier, endoscopic equipment, sets of instruments and implants for intramedullary osteosynthesis with locking, installation tools for hip and knee joint replacement, and other equipment. Functional medical beds have been installed in the wards.
In parallel with the renovation work in traumatology, other departments of the hospital are also being modernized: the cardiosurgical operating room has been renovated and retrofitted, and the admission department has been updated.