An inter-district emergency surgery center is being established at the Braslav Hospital as part of a pilot project
Thus, another step has been taken to fulfill the President's requirement to improve the accessibility of medical services for every person, regardless of where they live – in a big city or a small settlement.
The results of two and a half years of the center's operation, according to its **head, Candidate of Medical Sciences Yevgeny Matusevich**, show that the tasks set for the new formation are being successfully fulfilled. First of all, the accessibility of quality surgical care for villagers has been improved, and the efficiency of state healthcare spending has been increased.
Now, it is no longer necessary for each of the five district central hospitals to have expensive high-tech equipment – like highly qualified personnel, it is located in one center. Proximity to it allows adherence to the "golden hour" rule, during which the chances of saving a patient are maximized. Previously, it took a specialist from the region 3-4 hours to reach a district for a primary patient examination.
In the assigned districts, diagnoses are made, treatment plans are prescribed, and surgeries are performed. For example, the head of the center made 64 site visits, where he consulted and performed 48 operations, including 17 emergency, five high-tech, and nine complex operations, either independently or in collaboration with surgeons from district hospitals. The 15 other specialists of surgical profile also have high qualifications.
Among the indicators of the center's quality of work is the reduction in the number of adverse outcomes and complications after surgical interventions.
Consultative assistance is also provided to those categories of outpatient patients for whom traveling to the regional center or university clinics is a problem.
The issue of healthcare accessibility is constantly in the focus of the local authorities. This issue was once again discussed at a meeting of the district council presidium. Noting the positive results of the MLCC's work, the deputies drew the attention of its head and the chief physician of the Central District Hospital, the chairmen of rural councils of deputies, and the heads of district services to the need to comply with the projected indicators for demographic security, further improvement of the material and technical base of the district hospital and the center, training of highly qualified surgical personnel, and the introduction of new methods of providing medical care to the population of Braslavsky district and districts assigned to the MLCC. In particular, the introduction of laparoscopic surgery, the installation of a computed tomography scanner, and the acquisition of other modern equipment were discussed, which will allow achieving a qualitatively new level in rural healthcare.