More and more specific and high-tech medical care (HTMC) is provided to Moscow residents each year. This is due to the use of modern MIS techniques, cutting-edge medical equipment and continuous medical training. New technology helps patients spend less time at hospital.
Today free high-tech medical aid is available for Moscow residents at 48 hospitals of the city in 20 various fields for more than 1,400 deceases. The leading fields are Cardiovascular surgery (27.5%), Oncology (20.8%), Orthopaedics (18.8%). Last year, over 146,000 patients received HTMC. This is 4.5 times as many as in 2010.
The number of robot-assisted surgeries is growing. Many of these surgeries are unique. For example, drug-resistant epilepsy patients received first-ever Gamma Knife combined therapy in Russia. The reference act for radiosurgical epilepsy treatment has been developed. Four da Vinci Surgical Systems have been introduced into Moscow surgeons’ everyday practice.
Last year, the Moscow Government provided 2.6 billion roubles for 3D and 4D radiation therapy for the first time. About 7,000 patients had this therapy. Surgeons began to perform bone marrow transplants at Morozov Children’s Hospital and the first liver and kidney transplants were made at Botkin City Clinical Hospital.