The multidisciplinary state institution in St. Petersburg, which provides highly qualified assistance to children, is named after the Grand Duchess of Kievan Rus - St. Olga. City Children's Hospital No. 4 accepts boys and girls from 0 to 18 years old. This institution conducts various types of examinations, treatment in all directions. Today we will find out what departments are in this hospital and what people think about it.
Historical reference
Back in 1952, this hospital was opened. Saint Olga, the patroness of this children's institution, ruled Kievan Rus after the death of her husband Oleg.
This is a great woman who was distinguished by an indestructible will and courage. Named the hospital in honor of St. Olga, then its managers wanted their parents to understand that they needed to fight for their happiness and children's health to the end.
At the time the clinic opened, it could accommodate only a small number of patients. In 1970, the institution was named "Hospital No. 4". Then the structure of the organization included a hospital, as well as outpatient departments.
Only in 1995 there was a renaming of such an institution as the fourth children's hospital. Saint Olga gave the name to the clinic, and now her name is displayed on the sign of this medical organization. Today, the institution is the largest in the northern part of the city.
Hospital today
St. Olga's Children's City Hospital located in St. Petersburg today can accommodate over 300 children. The structure of the institution includes 10 departments, including a reception. The hospital also includes an MRI room, pharmacy, laboratory, catering department, physiotherapy department, and an x-ray room. Even at the institution, there are such advisory centers as epileptological, neurological, pulmonological. And since 2013, the city children's center for cystic fibrosis was opened at the hospital.
The staff of the institution is the leading children's doctors of the city. These are mainly specialists of the highest categories, candidates and doctors of medical sciences. Children's Hospital 4 of St. Olga actively cooperates with scientific and practical institutes and medical higher educational institutions of St. Petersburg. That is why trainees and graduate students can often be found within the walls of this organization.
Briefly about the Princess
The patroness of this institution is St. Olga. The hospital is named after this Russian princess who ruled in Kievan Rus. In 1547, Olga was canonized. Such an honor was awarded to few women in Christian history. St. Olga is considered the patroness of widows and converts Christians. In Orthodox churches, July 11 is considered its day. The fourth hospital was named in honor of this great woman. Saint Olga laid the foundation for stone urban planning in Russia.
Departments of a medical institution
The institution has the following departments:
- Infectious No. 1 and No. 3 (for children with problems of the bronchi, lungs, and also with a diagnosis of ARVI);
- neuropsychiatric No. 2, 6, 7 and 8;
- pathology of newborns and premature infants No. 4;
- ENT No. 5 (for children with diseases of the ENT organs requiring surgical or conservative treatment);
- outpatient;
- the reception.
The clinic also has its own office for laboratory research, an intensive care unit, and an X-ray room.
Departments for the treatment of children with cerebral palsy and CNS pathologies
For the treatment of these serious problems, parents with their children are sent to a branch of the hospital located at ul. Garvskaya, 5. The numbers of departments in which children with cerebral palsy and central nervous system are involved are 7 and 8. In these departments of a medical institution children from 3 months to 6 years old are treated.
To get an appointment with a doctor, you must provide the direction from the neurologist of the clinic to the registry. After the specialist receives an official document, he begins an examination of a small patient, which consists in passing such studies:
- CT scan.
- MRI of the brain and spinal cord.
- Ultrasonography of the brain.
- Electroencephalography and dopplerography of the vessels of the spinal cord and brain.
- Electromyography, etc.
In parallel with passing the necessary studies of a small patient, the following doctors can invite you to an appointment:
- orthopedist;
- speech therapist;
- physiotherapist;
- endocrinologist;
- neurosurgeon;
- optometrist;
- a geneticist.
Positive feedback from people about departments number 7 and 8
There are both positive and negative feedback from parents about these departments of the famous medical institution called “Children's City Hospital 4 of St. Olga”. Approving ratings of people relate to the work of the staff of the organization. Here are some positive things parents say sick children:
- Application of original techniques for working with babies. Many parents who fell into these departments with the children note that the pedagogical and speech therapy work with their sons and daughters is excellent. Specialists of these branches know their work, they use the Montessori technique, specialized massage for arms, legs, articulatory muscles.
- Parents note the excellent work of speech therapists. These narrow specialists pay great attention to the psycho-speech activity of babies. They conduct individual lessons with parents to teach them the skills of proper pedagogical and speech therapy work with their child.
- All employees of departments No. 7 and 8 always go to the rescue, without disregarding a single patient.
Parents also note such positive points in these neuropsychiatric departments:
- Free treatment for patients referred by a neurologist.
- Ability to stay in the hospital for children with parents.
- Competent, adequate treatment. Hospital 4 of St. Olga (its neuropsychiatric department) practices complex therapy using medicines, massage, exercise therapy, electrotherapy, magnetotherapy, heat therapy, etc.
Negative reviews of people about departments No. 7 and 8
There are bad reviews about these departments too. They are not connected with the work of specialists, but with the conditions in which sick children with parents are:
- The building is not for children at all: gray, dark. The only thing that adorns the building is a tablet that shows that St. Olga is the patroness of this institution. A children's hospital, according to many parents, should not scare people away, it should have more bright colors.
- Near the hospital there is even nowhere to walk with the child. Places for walking are not equipped with anything.
ENT department No. 5: description
Hospital of St. Olga on Agricultural, 2, takes small patients with various diseases of the throat, nose and ears, requiring surgical intervention. Operations are performed in the otolaryngological department No. 5. It accepts babies aged 3 months to 18 years.
Any child who has suspicions can get into the ENT department:
- on adenoids, chronic adenoiditis ;
- pharyngeal diseases;
- sinusitis (sinusitis, frontal sinusitis, ethmoiditis);
- nasal polyposis;
- hearing loss;
- otitis media;
- curvature of the nasal septum;
- allergic rhinitis;
- laryngitis in any form (acute or chronic).
In department No. 5, such surgeries are performed as opening an hematoma, boils, abscesses of the nose; removal of fistulas, foreign bodies from the ENT organs; polypotomy, reposition of the bones of the organ of smell, etc.
In addition to surgical intervention, such medical procedures are performed here as washing of sulfur caps, paranasal sinuses; purging of auditory tubes; catheterization of the auditory tube; treatment of tonsillitis with a special apparatus, etc.
Positive feedback from parents about the ENT department
Children's city hospital of St. Olga, namely her fifth department, receives various ratings of people. There are positive reviews, and they are expressed in the following:
- Free treatment.
- Good attitude of medical staff.
- Food. The food in the hospital is tasty, healthy and always fresh.
- Adequate, correct and quick treatment.
- The presence of chambers with increased comfort.
Negative moments in the work of the ENT department
1. St. Olga City Hospital is an institution in which normal repairs have not yet been made. Employees of the institution tried to decorate the premises with some children's wall stickers, but this did not make the room any better.
2. The lack of normal conditions in the wards. Many mothers complain that, getting into the ENT department, they do not get a second bed. And how can you sleep with a child on the same bed, which in addition also fails? Doctors do not answer this question.
3. Accommodation of patients not by age. Many people complain that small patients with parents are often placed in the wards in this ward, and boys or girls aged 14, 15 are identified there. Although, as it seems to many, it will be more correct to arrange patients by age.
4. Trainees work for whom there is no confidence. Many mothers say that the work of future young specialists is bad: they could not cope with their duties. Young patients should have experienced doctors, not interns from the university.
5. Inability to reach the attending physician. Many parents write that doctors in the ENT department are very busy people, and they rarely pick up the phone. This moment annoys parents, especially when urgent specialist consultation is needed, and there is no time to go or even fly to this medical institution.
Department of Pathology for Infants, Premature Babies
St. Olga's Hospital on Agricultural accepts very young children, recently born. The department for newborns and premature babies is designed for 30 beds. There is the latest equipment for diagnosing and nursing babies. Such specialists work in this department: oculists, orthopedists, cardiologists, surgeons, genetics.
Moms can stay with their newborn babies daily, from 9 am to 8 pm. They learn to properly care for and feed their children. Every day, experts talk with parents on various issues.
Moms have the opportunity to relax in a special room. They are also fed free 3 times a day. Comfortable bathroom, shower room - the hospital also has all this. Saint Olga, who converted to Christianity even before the baptism of Russia, did everything possible so that Russia became a great power. Probably, the people who named the hospital in honor of this princess wanted the clinic to become powerful and popular. And they managed to do it.
Psychoneurological Department No. 2
This unit is designed for 45 beds, 10 of which are for children under 1 year old.
Diseases that the doctors of this department are fighting:
- Epilepsy.
- Problems with the autonomic nervous system: tension headaches, migraine.
- Vascular diseases.
- Consequences of head injuries.
Sick children and their parents in the department are consulted by an endocrinologist, ophthalmologist, orthopedist, physiotherapist, nutritionist. Interns and residents have the opportunity to undergo postgraduate training in department No. 2 of a medical institution, which is under the auspices of such a princess as St. Olga. The hospital also collaborates with the Polenov Russian Neurosurgical Research Institute. Neurosurgeons also consult with patients who are in hospital and decide on the need for appropriate care.
Infectious ward number 1
This may include children with acute respiratory viral infections or complications after acute respiratory viral infections. This department has extensive experience in such diseases in St. Petersburg. Laryngotracheitis is a common ailment faced by doctors at St. Olga Hospital every day. To quickly rid young patients of this disease, inhalation therapy is used. For this purpose, inhalers and nebulizers are installed in special rooms that can quickly cure children of laryngotracheitis.
St. Olga's Hospital works closely with the Research Institute for Children's Infections, due to which the institution can use the most modern methods of treatment and diagnosis of any form of viral infections.
Also, in the department number 1 for the incoming children organized round-the-clock monitoring of doctors. In addition, there are 10 beds for the treatment of patients with somatic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, urinary system, eating disorders, allergic reactions.
Physiotherapy Department
The spiritual mother of the Russian people is St. Olga. The hospital (St. Petersburg - the city in which it is located), named after her, receives children from various cities of Russia. In the physiotherapy department, various rehabilitation and medical procedures are carried out:
- For the nervous system (cerebral palsy, encephalopathy, migraine, vegetovascular dystonia, etc.).
- Respiratory system (pneumonia, laryngitis, bronchitis, asthma).
- Musculoskeletal system (clubfoot, scoliosis, osteochondrosis).
- ENT organs (rhinitis, adenoiditis, hearing loss, otitis media, sinusitis, tonsillitis, etc.).
Physiotherapy methods in the department:
Massage. It is performed by experienced masseurs. Techniques: acupressure, reflex, classic massage, manual therapy.
Electrotherapy: magnetotherapy, galvanization, electrophoresis, UHF, inductothermy, etc.
Therapy with mechanical vibrations: ultrasound, infrasound, phonophoresis.
Light therapy: infrared radiation, laser, photochromotherapy, ultraviolet radiation, etc.
Heat therapy: mud applications, thermophysical heating pads, paraffin, etc.
Water therapy: medicinal, mineral, aromatic, pearl baths.
Medical nutrition
Maintaining order in their own state and the absence of wars - that was exactly the philosophy of a great personality in the history of Kievan Rus, which distinguished Princess Olga from other women. The hospital, which is named after her, also adheres to a certain pattern, regime. Today, special attention is paid to the diet of small patients. So, the hospital is equipped with new appliances for cooking. A dietitian works here, as well as a dietitian who runs a computer nutrition program and compiles a daily menu.
The hospital uses 2 types of food: group and individual. With the group system, 10 basic diets are used, depending on the problems of the small patient:
1. With gastric ulcer, 12 duodenal ulcer.
2. Chronic gastritis.
3. Chronic colitis.
4. Inflammatory problems in the intestines during the period of exacerbation.
5. Pyelonephritis, pancreatitis, biliary dyskinesia.
6. Nephropathy.
7. Glomerulonephritis.
8. Obesity.
9. Diabetes mellitus.
10. Diseases of the cardiovascular system, allergies of any origin. It is a basic diet.
Conclusion
Children's City Hospital No. 4 of St. Olga is a multidisciplinary institution, where you can get both free and paid help. This medical organization has several departments: surgical, infectious, neurological, pulmonological, otolaryngological, department for newborns and premature babies. Each unit provides quality assistance to children. Patients do not stay in this medical institution, because doctors help to quickly get rid of the problem, preventing its progression or complications.