he perinatal centre is a clinical and preventive institution offering all types of skilled hi-tech medical assistance in birth assistance, gynaecology and neonatology, as well as consultations and diagnostic assistance to women and young children.
The centre is located near the Moscow-St Petersburg motorway close to other regional medical centres, including the Regional Clinical Hospital, the Tver State Medical Academy’s Diagnostic Centre and a Medical School. The existence of this cluster makes it possible to promptly provide specialised medical assistance to women and newborns in the event of complicated pregnancy and/or childbirth.
A 130-bed centre was opened in March 2010. It includes:
- a maternity ward with 85 beds;
- a paediatric ward with 30 beds;
- the gynaecological unit with 15 beds;
- and an outpatient department accepting 100 patients per shift, as well as a clinical diagnostic unit, the organisational and analytical unit and the administrative and logistics unit.
The projected number of births is 2,500-3,000 a year.
The perinatal centre’s staff has 728.75 full-time positions of which 117 are specialist doctors.
The actual cost of the facility was 2.59 billion roubles, including 314.4 million roubles spent on medical equipment and furniture (saved on tender procedures). Medical equipment has been purchased strictly in compliance with the list established by the project and approved by the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development of the Russian Federation. Of the total amount of medical equipment procured, 60.6% (15.2% in cost terms) is Russian-made.
The opening of the perinatal centre as the core institution substantially strengthens the maternity and paediatric regional service in the following areas:
- the use of modern medical technology in assisting pregnant women, women during and after childbirth and newborns,
- the introduction of modern treatment methods with the use of chemotherapy and biological drugs; improved reanimation of newborns; and care for prematurely born babies with a critically low body mass;
- centralisation and more effective use of hi-tech equipment;
- increased number of skilled medical personnel;
- organisational and methodological assistance to maternity wards in the region;
- new opportunities for advanced training and skills upgrading of doctors and middle-level medical personnel.