According to Moscow Health Department chief pediatrician Alexander Rumyantsev, four perinatal centers where newborns receive emergency aid operate in the megalopolis. However, they were last reequipped 10 years ago. They will soon be reequipped, including childcare departments in three city hospitals.
Besides, maternity hospitals will get their own departments. Premature newborns will be "grown" in the building they are born in to save them from dying during transportation to a perinatal center. The world medical community considers a newborn weighing 500 grams and more a baby (earlier, babies weighing less than 1 kg were called fetuses). To save their lives, many cutting edge medical devices are needed. In Moscow, 15 out of 100 babies are prematurely born. To save them, each maternity hospital must have modern incubators with climate control, special catheters and various size needles, special foodstuffs, breathers, as well as apparatuses helping to stretch lungs. Premature children most often die of affection of the lungs, which lack a special albumen, sulfactant. This albumen can already be obtained artificially in Russia.
