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Dr Oleg Volman, the head of the Lugansk all-Republic Clinical Hospital (LRKB) told us that the first minimally invasive and endoscopic surgery unit in the LNR would open on 1 November at the LRKB, saying:
We never had anything like this, not even anything analogous. We thank our political leadership, as the LNR Ministry of Health and LNR Health Minister Larisa Airapetyan worked so hard to open this unique clinic. We now have a completely new unit, a single centre offering the most-modern high-tech minimally invasive surgery and endoscopic surgery. We’d be able to do minimally invasive surgery performed through relatively small incisions in the skin, without extensive cutting and massive blood loss. We’ll remove this class of patient completely from general population and concentrate them in one unit. This significantly reduces the risks involved, including infections. This new unit will have proper equipment, with staff with expertise in these techniques and the ability to use the most up-to-date gear. We plan to open the doors on 1 November; on 2 November, we’d admit our first patients and carry out our first operations.
Andrei Mayatsky, Head of the LRKB Department of Minimally Invasive Surgery noted:
We’ll start out with trauma, gynaecological, and general surgery. Over time, we’d add endoscopic surgery, microsurgery, and vascular surgery. Despite the fact that the unit only has ten beds, the intensity and low invasiveness of treatment increases the number of treated patients, as most receive discharge a day or two after surgery. Although we’re only starting with ten beds, we eventually see the need to expand it. When we introduce new categories of surgery, if necessary, we’d add beds. This is high-intensity medicine, people will come, get their operations, and, given the specificity of these surgical interventions, we’d send them home or transfer them to outpatient facilities after one or two days. People won’t have to lie in bed for two weeks after a large abdominal operation. We have a fully provided material and technical base; we have all the equipment that we need. It’s in the pipeline, it isn’t here yet, we have it delivered, it just isn’t onsite yet. We’ve trained everybody on what to do, how to perform the operations, and how to run the equipment. We’ve trained all of our specialists; everybody knows the procedures. When we begin actual operations, we’d send our doctors on to further training, to gain additional skills. Over time, we’d train new interns; we must train and nurture more doctors.
11 October 2015
LITs Lugansk Information Centre
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