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25.06.2008 Within the You Are Not Alone
program, a visiting team of specialists from the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital arrived at Shuya, a town in the Ivanovo region (Central
Russia), on June 18 and 19, 2008. Physicians from Moscow consulted 144 disabled children living in a specialized orphanage.
97 of these children have been abandoned by their parents. A total of 385 consultations
were provided. Nine children were directed to the Russian Children's Clinical
Hospital, and all others received detailed recommendations concerning their
further out-patient treatment and rehabilitation. The first two children from this orphanage
have already appeared at our hospital. Continued...
23.04.2008
On April 16 and 17, 2008, a visiting team of our hospital physicians again performed
medical examinations of orphans at a provincial institution, this time in Smolensk.
The team was headed by Deputy Head Physician Nelli A. Ignatieva. It also included
Head of the Department of Ophthalmology I.M. Chinenov, Head of the Department of
Psychoneurology-2 E.S. Ilyina, Head of the Department of Nephrology M.B. Sagalovich,
Head of the Department of Endocrinology M.E. Karmanov, pediatric gynecologist Prof. D.A. Bizhanova,
urologist G.V. Kozyrev, traumatologist-orthopedist I.V. Trubin, maxillofacial surgeon V.A. Batyunin,
and pediatrician E.S. Mar'mova.
The consultations took place on the basis of the Smolensk City and Regional Pediatric
Hospitals. A total of 110 children (332 consultations) were examined.
Continued...
4.02.2008 We are publishing our report on the work of the You Are Not Alone
program in 2007. Within this program, 88 orphans from 34 regions were admitted to the Russian Children's
Clinical Hospital (among them, 11 for follow-up treatment) during the last year.
Continued...
31.07.2007 Within the You Are Not Alone program, our physicians
had a journey to the Ryazan region (Central Russia, southeast of Moscow) on July 27.
The doctors visited orphanages and adoptive families in the town of
Kasimov and an asylum for disabled children in the Elatma settlement.
The visiting team was headed by Nelli Ignatieva, Deputy Head Physician
of the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital. Other participants
were I.M. Chinenov (Head of the Department of Ophthalmology),
T.M. Logacheva (gynecologist), E.S. Maryanova (pediatrician),
I.V. Rasskazchikova (neuropathologist), E.O. Vyazmenov (otolaryngologist),
V.A. Botyanin (surgeon), and A.Ya. Guseinov (urologist). The doctors
examined 117 children and provided a total of 247 consultations.
Admission to hospital was officially recommended for 34 children.
27.07.2007 The results achieved within the You Are
Not Alone program during the first half of 2007:
From January to July 2007, 44 children have received treatment
at the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital within the You Are
Not Alone program. These children arrived from the Moscow region (10),
Ivanovo region (7), Kaluga region (6), Tula region (3), Orel region (2),
Novgorod region (2), and one child from each of the following regions:
Altai krai, Belgorod, Vologda, Kemerovo, Nizhni Novgorod, Sverdlovsk,
Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, Yakutia (Sakha), Tatarstan,
Evreiskaya oblast, Taimyr okrug.
Orphan patients have received medical help at the following departments:
Maxillofacial Surgery (9 children), Microsurgery (6 children),
Diagnostic (6 children), Urology (5 children), Neurosurgery (3 children),
Otolaryngology (2 children), Endocrinology (2 children), Immunology (1 child),
Diabetology (1 child), Traumatology and Orthopedics (1 child),
Coloproctology (1 child), Psychoneurology and Epilepsy (Psychoneurology-2)
(1 child), Resuscitation (1 child), Dermatology (1 child), Medical Genetics
(1 child), Abdominal Surgery (1 child), Psychoneurology-1 (1 child),
and Gynecology (1 child).
The money raised by the Regional Public Charity Foundation for
Seriously ill and Abandoned Children was used to buy
medications, nutrition, and hygienic goods worth a total of 603,608.30
roubles ($23,670) for the orphans. A total of 514,583 roubles ($20,180)
was paid to nurses for their work.
23.05.2007 Last week, a group of physicians from the Russian Children's
Clinical Hospital visited Dmitrov, a town near Moscow. This visit took
place within the You Are Not Alone program. The physicians consulted
children from the Dmitrov orphanage for children with disabilities.
The visiting team was headed by Deputy Head Physician of the RCCH L.S. Karpin.
It also included leading doctors from the Departments of Urology,
Traumatology and Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, and Psychoneurology.
Yuri Kholangot from our charitable foundation and Kostya Sedov, our
"Doctor Clown," also were there.
Our specialists examined 77 children (a total of 93 consultations). 21
children will be directed to the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital
for correction of their therapy or for surgical treatment.
1.06.2007
A press conference concerning the present state of the
You Are Not Alone program took
place on May 30. The press conference was organized by the Regional
Public Charity Foundation for Seriously ill and Abandoned
Children and the administration of the Russian Children's Clinical
Hospital. Head Physician of the RCCH Nikolai Vaganov, President of charity
foundation Line Saltykova, Deputy Head Physician of the RCCH Nelli Ignatyeva,
and Head of the Infectious Department Galina Volkova answered the
correspondents' questions concerning the results achieved within the program,
the visits to orphanages, the attitude of physicians and nurses to orphans,
the work of volunteers, etc.
All orphans who are currently under treatment at the RCCH were invited to the
conference hall and given wonderful presents.
For further successful development of the You Are
Not Alone program, our
Foundation together with the Priyut Detstva (Childhood Shelter) foundation is starting
a new project: creation of a rehabilitation center for orphan patients.
The center is to be opened at a distance of 18 km from Moscow, in a
picturesque place.
After the creation of such a center, more orphans
will be able to undergo long-term multistage treatment at our hospital
and the efficiency of such treatment will be higher.
Presently four orphan patients at our hospital are undergoing
multistage treatment, which requires long rehabilitation:
Sasha K.,
Milena L-na,
Ilya I., and
Olya B-na. After a rehabilitation
center is opened, it will be possible for our hospital to treat many more such
patients.
Our partners from the Childhood Shelter foundation have long experience
of working with orphans and homeless children, and they well understand
the essence of the problem.
This project can be implemented fast enough if we receive timely financing,
a total of $300,000. After it, the new center will be ready to take its first
patients by the end of 2007.
30.04.2007 Within the
You Are Not Alone program,
32 orphans aged from 6 months to 16 years were treated at
the RCCH during the first quarter of 2007. Ten of them received
expensive advanced medical help. Most of the orphan patients
were admitted to the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery (7 children),
Urology (4 children), other surgical departments (5 children).
Most of them were from the Moscow (8 children), Kaluga (6),
and Ivanovo (7) regions. At the same time, some patients were from
the most distant regions of Russia (Altai, Yakutia, Taimyr, etc.).
6.03.2007 For the report on the work of the You Are Not Alone program
in 2006, see here.
The total sum spent by our foundation in 2006 on implementation of
the program for providing medical help to orphan children at the
RCCH was about 740,000 roubles ($27.925). Within this program,
86 children from various regions of the Russian Federation received
treatment at the RCCH in 2006. Most of these patients were admitted
to the Departments of Maxillofacial Surgery (20 children), Urology
(12 children), Gynecology (7 children), and surgical departments (14
children). Continued...
On 24.01.2007,
a team including Deputy Head Physician of the RCCH Nelli A. Ignatyeva,
Head of the Infectious Department Galina I. Volkova, Head of the Department
of Psychoneurology-2 Elena S. Ilyina, and representative of our
charity foundation Yuli Kholangot visited Kaluga, where the physicians
consulted children from the local orphanage.
Dr. Nelli Ignatyeva told us:
"Our journey to the Kaluga orphanage took place within the
framework of the You Are Not Alone
charity program. The aim of this journey was to provide consultations
to our colleagues in Kaluga who work with children left without
parental care and to examine some children who suffer from
disorders requiring the use of contemporary technologies for their
treatment. Presently such help cannot be provided to these children
at the level of the local public health services.
This orphanage in Kaluga presently hosts 108 children. We examined
35 of them. Most of these kids had perinatal problems. Eleven
children will be directed to our hospital for examination
and treatment, and others will receive recommended medical assistance
in Kaluga.
Our physicians examined the children together with the physician of
the orphanage and other specialists. All the recommendations were discussed
with the local doctors, who know these children from their first days.
The therapeutic and rehabilitation approaches were elaborated.
Our general impression of this orphanage was quite pleasant. The
children are charming, and the people who look after them are
kind and hard-working. They try to give these children as much
warmth and care as possible.
We were glad to see that the regional adminstration also helps
children who have parents but at the same time suffer from a very difficult social
or financial situation. Some of these children also live at the
Kaluga orphanage.
And a few words about what this orphanage needs. First, owing
to some specific features of the financing of such institutions,
there is always a shortage of hygienic goods: disposable diapers (pampers),
creams, baby wipes. Also, the children need pretty and bright clothes.
As to good toys, there are already quite a lot."
11.06.06 Within the You Are Not
Alone program for providing medical help to children from
orphanages, doctors of the RCCH made their first journey to provincial
orphanages from June 7 to 9, 2006, with support and participation of the
Help Group of the RCCH and our charitable foundation. This event was
aimed at performing medical examinations of children and selecting those
who need in-hospital treatment at the RCCH. Also, consultations were
given to local doctors.
This time, the objects of our attention were preschool and school-age
orphanages of the Ivanovo region. The medical team that paid a visit to
Ivanovo was headed by Dr. Nelli Ignatieva, Deputy Head Physician of the
RCCH, and Lina Saltykova, president of the Regional Public Charity
Foundation for Seriously ill and Abandoned Children. Leading
doctors of our hospital also participated in this journey: Dr. Alexander
S. Kuzin, Head of the Department of Traumatology and Orthopedics; Dr.
Irina V. Kondratenko, Head of the Department of Clinical Immunology; Dr.
Elena S. Ilyina, Head of the Department of
Psychoneurology No. 2; Dr. Vladimir Yu. Korchagin from the
Department of Urology; Dr. Vladimir A. Batyunin from the Department of Craniomaxillofacial
Surgery; and Dr. Alexei V. Frolov from the Department of Microvascular
Surgery. Other participants were Yuri Khalangot from our charity
foundation and Kostya Sedov, Doctor
Clown from the Help Group, who often helps doctors in their contacts
with gravely ill patients and generally makes the children happier and
more optimistic.
The administration of the Ivanovo region, as well as doctors and
directors of orphanages, met our initiative with full understanding and
gratitude. The doctors gave 413 consultations and examined 195 children
(among them, most needed consultations by several specialists), made
recommendations and prescribed treatment, gave advice and promised to be
always in contact with their local colleagues. 29 children with the most
serious disorders are to be admitted to the RCCH, and 20 of them will
receive treatment using advanced contemporary techniques.
Since this autumn, after specialists return from their summer leave,
such visits to orphanages are to become regular.
On June 18, 2006, the 1st Channel of the Russian TV showed this visit.
Lina Saltykova, President of the Regional Public Charity
Foundation for Seriously ill and Abandoned Children, told
about this journey. Continued...
8.06.2006
In May, our volunteers visited several people whom we had earlier
supported at hospital. Now they live in the Moscow region.
Marina and Irina paid a visit to Lola
Yakubova.
The Rodnichok orphanage, where Lola lives, turned out to be a wonderful
place. It is located in the countryside, in quiet and picturesque
surroundings. And the atmosphere of this orphanage is also quiet and
warm. Its staff consists of kind and compassionate people, who have
managed to become real friends for the inhabitants of the orphanage.
After a tasty dinner, the teachers told the guests about Lola. They
spoke with great love and respect. Lola is a beloved friend and tutor
for the younger children and patiently helps them with their studies
every day.
This year, Lola will again spend her summer vacation in Italy, where she
was invited by our Italian friends. The problem with her documents has
been successfully resolved.
Also, volunteers Marina and Nadezhda visited several girls in their orphanage in
Peredelkino, a settlement at the outskirts of Moscow. These girls
are former patients of our Department of Gynecology. Presently they are
all right. They were very glad to see the guests and to receive small
presents.
8.05.2006
The You Are Not Alone program has been functioning at the Russian
Children's Clinical Hospital for six months. Lina Saltykova, head of the
Help Group of our hospital, is telling:
"I want to address our friends and collaborators with words of
gratitude for your help and understanding. Starting the campaign for
helping orphan children, we understood that it was necessary but were
somehow afraid that we wouldn't cope, because such actions are quite new
for us. Indeed, there have been a lot of problems and disappointments.
But we are sure that this work is more than important and brings a lot
of moral satisfaction. And all participants of this program, including
the staff of the RCCH and our volunteers and sponsors, share this
opinion.
At first we had problems with providing local offices and authorities
with information about this program. But now information is spreading
wider and wider, and we receive applications from all Russian regions:
Moscow, Yaroslavl, Kaluga, Belgorod, Voronezh regions in the central
part of Russia, Karelia and Khanty-Mansiisk in the North, Krasnodar in
the South, Tyva in the Siberia, Chukotka and Primorye in the Far East.
During these six months, over 50 orphan children have received treatment
or consultations at the RCCH, and the number of applications is still
growing. Five children have been adopted, and potential adoptive
families are interested in several more kids.
During the functioning of the program, we have seen that children depend
not only on timely medical help but also on our interest in their
destinies, on our attention. And it is terrible to think about the
thousands of fully abandoned children who are denied this attention.
For many children, medical examinations have shown that they are quite
normal, although some of them had been regarded as mentally retarded by
local doctors. Some showed signs of serious neurological and
somatic disorders although their condition was actually due to
psychological problems and lack of due attention. And the worst thing
was to see children who were brought for treatment too late and will
always stay disabled, although their grave congenital disorders could
have been completely eliminated during the first months of their lives.
It is just that some doctors and the staff of local orphanages are often
poorly informed about the potential of contemporary medicine and do not
even try to cure a child or to send him or her to a suitable hospital
with qualified specialists in due time.
This situation requires active work. The administration and staff of the
RCCH, with support of the Help Group and our charitable foundation, have
decided to create "visiting groups" of doctors for screening
of babies and small children from local orphanages and selecting those
who need immediate medical help. Each of such groups should include a
pediatrician, a psychoneurologist, a surgeon, and possibly other
specialists if necessary. The first journey is planned for May 2006. It
will be a visit to Ivanovo and Shuya [towns in a very poor region in
central Russia].
The doctors and the entire staff of hospital departments show wonderful
attitude toward orphan children. Sometimes the doctors and nurses even
bring food and clothing for the orphans themselves. Actually, it was the
doctors' compassion and responsibility that inspired the development of
our special program for helping orphans and abandoned children.
We again thank all our friends and visitors of this Web site for support
of the children, for giving them friendship and help.
Thank you, dear friends!
And I again remind you that small orphan children need (a) disposable
diapers and (b) paid nurses (and sponsors who could help in paying for
the work of these nurses)."
We are grateful to all Muscovites who come to the hospital to visit
the orphans, to brings them food, clothing, or presents. The necessary
hygienic and cosmetic means have been bought for all the orphans.
But the thing they need most is human contact. We need people who will
visit the kids in order to play with them, to read books to them, to
help in school studies, and just to talk about everything.
Irina, Nadezhda, Tatiana, Zhanna Lvovna, Natalia, Marina - thank you for
your constant help!
We also thank our experienced "champions," Rimma Nikolaevna
and Victor, who have been giving all their free time to orphans in our
hospital for many years.
This year, Lyudmila Moiseevna, an experienced school teacher, also came
to our Help Group. Now she is not working at school any more because of
her age, but she willingly helps our orphans in their studies.
15.12.2005
Last week, our orphan children visited a show at the Durov theater of
trained animals. Everybody was amazed: not only the younger kids but
also Igor V., a very serious boy of fifteen. The actors of the Durov
theater have been our friends for many years, and we want to thank
Natalia Durova, who heads this theater now, for her constant readiness
to see children from our hospital in her wonderful theater. The kids are
always happy to see the charming and kind animals.
Natalia Sh., who regularly brings tasty food for the orphan children,
has now also brought nice home clothes for all the patients who are now
present at the hospital and even 10 sets of clothes for our future
patients. Thank you, Natalia!
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