St. Petersburg is a young city by historical standards, but the level of medicine in the former capital of the Russian Empire grew along with its buildings and streets. Even during the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna, he deservedly became the cultural and scientific center of the country, and remains to this day.
The first free hospitals in St. Petersburg, or, as they were also called, charity houses, or almshouses, began to open at the end of the 18th century with the efforts of charitable societies, private individuals and royalty.
Today in St. Petersburg there are about 150 hospitals, each of which has its own history, directly related to the formation of medicine in this city.
City hospitals
If we talk about multidisciplinary medical institutions, the 2nd city hospital in St. Petersburg is an indicator of the European level of service and the largest multidisciplinary hospital in the city.
Founded in 1991 with the support and assistance of German experts, it soon became the most modernized medical institution equipped with the latest medical equipment. This allows qualified specialists not only to carry out complex operations using high-tech treatment methods, but also to be a training ground for several research institutes and medical universities of the country.
To date, St. Petersburg City Hospital 2 serves more than 40,000 patients a year in the following departments:
- diagnostic unit;
- rehabilitation department;
- Ophthalmology Center;
- gynecology;
- gastroenterology center;
- three departments of cardiology;
- resuscitation and intensive care;
- medical cosmetology;
- 2 departments of neurosurgery;
- 2 centers of neurology;
- general surgery;
- blood transfusion center;
- Department of Vascular Surgery;
- traumatology and orthopedics;
- urology;
- endocrinology;
- center for maxillofacial surgery;
- centers of pulmonology and vertebral surgery.
The best diagnostic equipment has been installed in this hospital, which allows to determine the cause of the patient’s disease with high accuracy. The most complicated operations on the heart, blood vessels of the brain and other organs are carried out using laser and electrosurgery. The achievements of doctors and the level of treatment in this medical institution allow him to remain in the top ten hospitals in the country.
Hospital them. Botkin
Alexander Barracks Hospital was founded in 1882. Today it is the Botkin Hospital (St. Petersburg), located at 3 Mirgorodskaya Street.
The question of the need for a rapidly developing city to have a separate infectious medical facility was caused by the fact that the number of infected people grew steadily due to the fact that infected patients were in the same wards with other patients.
For these purposes, 22 separate huts were built, each of which was allocated for a certain type of ailment, and one for convalescents.
The fact that the other hospitals in St. Petersburg stopped receiving infected people significantly reduced the epidemiological situation in the capital. The trustee of this institution was S.P. Botkin, after whose death it began to bear his name.
Today it is the largest city center for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Botkin Hospital (St. Petersburg) united all the medical departments of the city that worked in this direction.
Until 2004, the institution was in old buildings, so the city government decided to build new buildings, which were solemnly commissioned in 2011 and 2013.
Children's hospitals
Today in the city there are 20 medical institutions for babies. The largest children's hospitals in St. Petersburg:
- The name of St. Mary Magdalene. This is one of the oldest hospitals in the city, founded in 1829. The mansion in which it was located was built on Vasilyevsky Island in 1794 for Ivan Kusov, a major industrialist and supplier of the royal court. In 1828, the building was sold to convert it into a hospital. A hospital was founded on its base at such a high level for that time that representatives of the imperial family visited it repeatedly. Since 1993, the hospital has been converted to receive small patients.
- The 1st city children's hospital was opened in 1974, for which 600 hectares were allocated in the Polezhaevsky park of the Krasnoselsky district . Today, 13 departments of the day hospital meet patients in it, most of which receive patients around the clock.
- Fifth Children's Clinical Hospital. Filatova was once called the Imperial Nikolaev, was the first children's hospital in Russia. Founded in 1832, today it annually receives about 70,000 small patients. It has 650 beds in 29 departments, and 800 employees work in its walls. If the child needs urgent assistance, then he is sent here.
Children's hospitals in St. Petersburg are equipped with the best diagnostic equipment and modern operating rooms.
Regional Hospital
The capital of the Russian Empire was famous for the charity and patronage of its inhabitants. Many city buildings were erected at the expense of the rich and enlightened people of that time. So the regional hospital (St. Petersburg) was once the House of Charity, built in the courtyard of the mansion of the first guild merchant A. I. Timenkov.
In its time, 3 departments were located in it: male, female and children's, as well as an orphanage school and a chapel. Since 1939, a regional hospital with 600 beds was equipped in it; a polyclinic and a nursing school were opened at it. By 1980, it no longer accommodated all patients, and a decision was made to expand it. In 1987, this medical institution treated more than 1000 patients at the same time.
Today, not all city hospitals in St. Petersburg can boast of such results:
- hospital for 1053 places;
- polyclinic in which doctors work in 40 specialties;
- more than 500 receptions per day;
- outpatient treatment at this hospital is received by more than 200,000 people a year;
- it is a scientific and practical complex in which new methods of treating diseases are constantly being introduced using the best medical technologies.
The city’s regional hospital has been providing emergency medical care to all residents of the Leningrad Region for many decades.
Peter the Great Hospital
Clinical hospitals of St. Petersburg are the bases of medical universities of the city. So, the hospital to them. Peter the Great (Piskarevsky Avenue, 47) refers to the University. Mechnikov. The appearance of this large medical institution was preceded by a decision of the State Duma in 1903 on the need for a hospital with 1000 beds. Its grand opening took place in the presence of royalty in 1914. By 1917, 1,500 beds were located in it, and departments were opened for diseases of such urgent at that time as typhoid and cholera.
Since 1932, a medical school was opened at the hospital, where 200 students were trained every year and at the same time worked in hospitals. Today it has 26 departments in 50 buildings, which annually receive more than 40,000 patients.
The clinic is equipped with the most modern medical equipment and is still a training base for future doctors.
Alexander Hospital
Not many hospitals in St. Petersburg boast such a "biography" as the Alexander Clinic. Founded by decree of Nicholas I on 04.16.1842, the hospital for laborers is an example of how imperial the family was imbued with the needs of the people. Initially, patients were placed in chambers allocated to them by other medical institutions, but in 1866, by decree of Alexander II, a separate clinic was opened, called the Alexander Hospital for the working population.
By 1891, more than 10,000 people were treated here annually. A distinctive feature of this institution is that it was here that many of the latest methods for the treatment of various diseases were developed and implemented. Today’s staff of the Alexander Hospital is famous for this. She accepts up to 200 patients a day, and the 24-hour diagnostic department often saves lives when emergency care is required. More than 30,000 patients receive quality medical care at the walls of the Alexander Hospital.
Mariinsky Hospital
Only 3 hospitals in St. Petersburg have such a long history as the Mariinsky clinic for the poor. It was founded in honor of the 100th anniversary of the city at the request of Empress Maria Feodorovna and began to receive its first patients in 1805. Built according to the design of Giacomo Quarenghi, it is still an adornment of Liteiny Prospect.
Nowadays, specialists from almost all medical fields are represented in it, and it annually helps 40,000 patients. The clinic is especially famous for the results of its surgeons, thanks to which more than 12,000 operations are performed every year.
The hospital consists of 15 buildings, which house 18 main and 20 additional departments, where a little more than 1000 specialists work.
Oncology hospitals
In 1946, it was decided to open an oncological hospital in St. Petersburg. Addresses of the head building and branch: Veteranov Ave. 56, and 2nd Birch Alley. For 70 years, there has been assistance and comprehensive treatment for patients with benign and malignant tumors.
The Oncology Center is equipped with the best devices for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
City medicine
Hospitals in St. Petersburg have a glorious history of the development of medicine not only in the city, but throughout the country. At one time, such great doctors and scientists as Botkin, Bekhterev, Vinogradov and others worked precisely in them. The names of many of them are well known abroad.
Modern doctors are creating a new history of medicine in the great city, which will be proud of the next generation of Petersburgers.