Doctors from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and Lithuania will take part in the surgeons' congress in Vitebsk

October 26, Minsk /Olga Shvaiko - BELTA/. The results of the work of the surgical service of Belarus, as well as promising development directions, will be discussed by the participants of the 14th Congress of Surgeons of the Republic on November 11-12. The forum is held once every four years and each time in different cities of the country. As the chief surgeon of the Ministry of Health of Belarus Ivan Pikirenya informed a BELTA correspondent, this year Vitebsk will host the congress participants. In addition to Belarusian specialists, doctors from abroad will visit the forum and present their reports. Among the invited are representatives from Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Moldova, Germany, Poland, and other countries. A total of more than 250 delegates will take part in the discussion. A wide range of topics is included in the congress agenda. The forum participants will consider issues related to the development of cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, surgical care for children, etc. Many reports are devoted to pancreatic operations. At this congress, for the first time, issues related to organ and tissue transplantation will be discussed. This area of medicine has been actively developing in our country in recent years. Thus, in nine months of the current year, 24 liver transplantations, 87 kidney transplantations, and 17 heart transplantations have already been performed in Belarus. Worldwide, surgery is focused on the development of minimally invasive (low-trauma) and hospital-substituting technologies. Domestic surgeons are not lagging behind their foreign colleagues. For example, laparoscopic operations for kidney retrieval from a living related donor have been successfully performed at the RSPC for Organ and Tissue Transplantation. Such methods allow for organ retrieval with minimal trauma and risk for the donor. Such operations are performed with high optical magnification, they are safer. After such surgical intervention, there are practically no cosmetic defects left, rehabilitation is faster, and the patient can be discharged from the hospital on the third day. As Ivan Pikirenya noted, the use of "day surgery" technology in Belarusian clinics allows for significant savings of budget funds, as the costs of a patient's hospital stay are one of the expensive items in the cost estimate for patient treatment. In his opinion, "day surgery" technology has fully justified itself in healthcare institutions. It has been successfully used for more than three years in many clinics of the republic, not only in Minsk but also in the regions. -0-