The last day of the outgoing year is always very busy for the head of state. This time Alexander Lukashenko paid a visit to "Mother and Child" National Scientific and Practical Center. Our President visited the new building of the Neonatal Resuscitation Center, which helps children with extremely low birth weight. The center is equipped with high-class facilities, which will make it possible to introduce new methods of treatment and diagnostics. In short, all conditions have been created there to give birth to a healthy baby. Of course, Alexander Lukashenko talked to the staff and mothers and got acquainted with the new citizens of the country.
The "Mother and Child" center rescues children with record low body weight. These are cases from all over the republic. One of the unique cases was when doctors saved a 450 grams baby. Now he is 5 years old. His photo and photos of other children, whom the doctors gave life, decorate the walls of the center.
The new Children's Intensive Care Unit is designed for 30 little patients. They can stay in the wards next to their mothers. It has already been proven that this way children feel calmer, and they gain weight faster.
The survival rate of such difficult infants in Belarus is the highest in the Europe - 80%.
In their dreams of becoming parents, couples grasp at any hope. The National Scientific and Practical Center "Mother and Child" is one of several centers in the country where one can have the first attempt of IVF treatment absolutely free of charge. Last year, 525 such attempts were made at this center alone.
Alexander Lukashenko came to every ward with gifts. He was interested in the health of mothers and babies. The center itself also received a gift from the President. This is an ultrasonic diagnostics apparatus. It can detect fetal growth defects, including congenital heart diseases, at the earliest stage of pregnancy.












