Every year about 4 thousand women become mothers in National Scientific and Practical Center "Mother and Child"

30 мая 2022
The medical sector deserves special attention. Belarus is in the forefront of the world rankings for nursing infants weighing 500 grams or more. The country has created all conditions to preserve life and health of the young mother and her baby. The Mother and Child Center accepts patients with the most severe pathologies. Intrauterine correction of fetal malformations is also performed. 

Every year about 4 thousand women become mothers in the National Scientific and Practical Center "Mother and Child". The center takes in patients with the most complicated pathologies: neurological, cardiological, oncological. Babies with extremely low birth weight of only 500 grams are taken care of! This neonatal department provides all necessary conditions for children born in the 27-28th week of pregnancy.

The babies are kept here for about two months, until they can be moved to their mother's room. The survival rate of such children in the country is at a stable level of 80%. And this is the achievement of our medicine: high-tech equipment and, above all, qualified, attentive and responsible staff. 

Another achievement of Belarusian specialists is correction of congenital abnormalities of children. Such operations were first performed last December. Then a child with a spinal hernia was successfully operated. And the day before the surgeons took on a not less complicated case. The patient's fetus was found to have a diaphragmatic hernia in the 22nd week of pregnancy. This means the baby's stomach, intestines, and lobe of the liver were shifted to the left side, and the lung tissue was not developing and would not be able to participate in the breathing process. The first stage of correction of the pathology was performed in the 26th week of the patient's pregnancy.