“On January 1 the Children’s Surgery National Applied Research Hospital has been established in accordance with the decision of the Council of Ministers No.1211 dated December  20, 2014,” reported BELTA from the Ministry of Health.

The Children’s Surgery National Applied Research Hospital has been established on the basis of the Pediatric Surgical Medical Centre of the 1st Minsk City Clinical Hospital and the National Applied Research Hospital on Cardiology. Every year more than 7000 children were provided with medical treatment, including more than 1 200 children with congenital cardio – vascular system diseases received surgical treatment in the NARH on Cardiology. Annually more than 8 000 children are examined and receive surgical treatment at the Children’s Surgery National National Applied Research Hospital. At the same time a significant number of children require surgical care by surgeons and physicians-surgeons simultaneously.

The world experience of pediatric surgical centers shows that the best results in the treatment of such children are achieved in the centers providing all kinds of surgical care. Establishment of the Children’s Surgery National Applied Research Hospital will be a new impetus to the development of this field of medicine and will contribute to the new methods of providing comprehensive surgical care development, testing and implementation into practice, as a result the availability and quality of highly specialized medical care for children will be improved.