Putin to tour child hematology center in Moscow Wed

MOSCOW, June 1 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
will tour a new complex at the Federal scientific and clinical center
(FSCC) for child hematology, oncology and immunology here on Wednesday.
The government press service announced that the Premier "will attend a
ceremony marking the completion of the construction of the complex, tour
the premises of the Center, and meet with leading Russian and foreign
specialists in child oncology and hematology".
The child hematology center was founded in 2005 on the basis of the
child hematology research institute.
The FSCC now comprises a scientific and clinical complex for 232 beds
with12 beds of an intensive therapy ward, a 270-room scientific and
polyclinical complex designed for 270 visits a day with a day in-hospital
for 20 beds; a laboratory complex; the hematology service proper with
special monitoring of blood components; a 150-room boarding hospital for
children with parents (300 beds) where patients will live between
chemotherapy cycles and post-treatment rehabilitation periods.
One of major subdivisions of the Center is a department for radiation
diagnosis and therapy, fitted out with up-to-date equipment, including a
positron-emission tomograph, and means for endovascular surgery and
radiosurgery.
The Center has been built and fitted out in close cooperation with the
German Council for the promotion of construction and operation of the
Center.