A solemn opening ceremony of the largest Russia’s center of children’s leukemia treatment – the Institute of children’s hematology and transplantology named after Raisa Gorbacheva- will be held in Saint Petersburg today.
Michael Gorbachev, head of the Public Chamber's healthcare commission Leonid Roshal, Chairman of the Council of Federation Sergey Mironov, president of the European association of hematologists William Fibbe, head of the bone marrow donor Register Torsten Igelend, leading specialists from the Russian Federation, Byelorussia, Europe, the USA will take part in the ceremony
This unique center is the first and the only project of such kind in Russia: the funds of Russian and foreign sponsors were obtained with the help of the social organization and private individuals in order to create the center for children with leukemia. The initiative was approved and supported by the Russian Government - the main sponsor of the project.
The 12- floored Institute has an area of 5500 square meters, modern medical and engineering equipment. The center contains policlinic, day hospital, clinical laboratory, transfusiology department, departments of resuscitation and intensive care. The institute also contains department of laboratory diagnostics, laboratory of molecular biology and gene therapy of oncohematological diseases, laboratories of hemopoietic cells quality control, pathomorphology, histocompatibility matching, cytogenetics, cultivation and immunology.
