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The President was accompanied by Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Maxim Oreshkin, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko, Presidential Envoy to the Central Federal District Igor Shchegolev, Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov, President of the National Research Centre for Emergency Children’s Surgery Leonid Roshal, and Chief Physician of the Leonid Roshal Children’s Clinical Centre Tatyana Shapovalenko.

Before the tour, Vladimir Putin talked to doctors at the Children’s Clinical Centre. The President was shown the centre’s operating rooms (including a robot-assisted one), the telemedicine unit, the hospital control room, the intensive care unit, wards for children and their parents, recreation areas and playrooms. Vladimir Putin also spoke briefly with patients and visitors to the clinic.

In addition, Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov presented the President with a scale model of the Balashikha Regional Hospital, which is scheduled for completion in 2027.

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The Leonid Roshal Children’s Clinical Centre is a flagship healthcare project in the Moscow Region. The clinic will coordinate of all children’s health centres in the Moscow Region.

The centre broke ground in 2021. It now includes 16 inpatient units with 461 beds, 23 operating rooms, four intensive care units with 48 beds, including a neonatal intensive care unit. The building has a helipad for air ambulance on top.

The centre will employ a multidisciplinary team of more than 1,600 physicians and other staff that span 28 medical specialties. About 15,000 children will be able to receive inpatient treatment here annually, and another 150,000 young patients will undergo examinations and receive consultations at the centre.

The new centre has been fitted out with 9,500 pieces of cutting-edge surgical, diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation equipment, with part of it procured from domestic manufacturers.

The facility will have the only children’s maxillofacial surgery department in the Moscow Region, the first intravascular children’s surgery centre in the Moscow Region, as well as a critical conditions centre, which will ensure quick routing and management of patients in critical conditions.