Doctors from the St Petersburg University Clinic continue volunteering in the zone of the special military operation

The activists of the voluntary movement named after the Holy Cross Community of Sisters of Mercy, i.e. employees of the Pirogov Clinic of High Medical Technologies at St Petersburg University, in three days collected 250,000 roubles. These funds are aimed at purchasing essential items for military personnel during the cold season and improving their working and living conditions in the zone of the special military operation.

The funds were used to purchase 15 heat guns, five electric blankets, two electric mattresses, a gas stove, and a TV set.

‘We believe that this equipment will bring some comfort to the treatment centres where our doctors and wounded military personnel work and live, and the doctors will be able to make their own warm food centre inside the hospital,’ said Dmitry Shkarupa, Director of the St Petersburg University Clinic. 

As part of expanding cooperation with the new regions, St Petersburg University and Dmitry Shkarupa organised a business trip for Nariman Gadzhiev to Lugansk. Nariman Gadzhiev is Deputy Director for Medical Affairs (urology) at the St Petersburg University Clinic, Doctor of Science (Medicine), and a urologist. Dr Gadzhiev worked together with colleagues at City Multifield Hospital No 2 in Lugansk that is operating under the leadership of Chief Physician Dmitrii Bykov. 

During the week, Nariman Gadzhiev conducted workshops for colleagues from the new region, where he introduced techniques for a complex high-tech operation to break up kidney stones with a laser using flexible instruments. This operation is performed simultaneously from two sides: through a skin puncture in the lumbar region under ultrasound control and through the urethra using flexible instruments. Kidney stones are broken up into small fragments and removed from the patient’s body.

Nariman Gadzhiev delivered lectures for colleagues on modern techniques for kidney stones and surgery for prostate adenoma.

Nariman Gadzhiev also performed a demonstration operation to remove prostate adenoma using monopolar enucleation. Today, it is the gold standard for surgical treatment of prostate adenoma. The technology involves removing the adenoma through the urethra. The operation is performed using a special monopolar instrument and is designed to restore the function of normal urination in men with prostate hyperplasia. 

There was also a transfer of humanitarian aid, which included a modern ultrasound machine, a portable laser of the latest generation, a large number of stents, catheters, and other consumables.