June 8, 2011
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Vladimir Putin
ordered to begin construction in Moscow Center of Pediatric Hematology, Immunology and Oncology named Dima Rogachev - a boy who died of
leukemia
, Which had a chance to chat with the prime minister.
At a press conference Director of the oncology center Alexander Rumyantsev , The first patients agencies can start here treated by the autumn of this year, roughly from October 15.
The center is located in the southwestern part of Moscow. The area of new medical institutions, 72 thousand square meters. meters, allows you to receive treatment on the same time to 400 child patients . For parents, the hotel provided for 300 people.
Equipped with the latest equipment for tomography and radiosurgery, the new oncology center, which was opened on June 1, the cost to the budget of 11 billion rubles. In addition to medical and diagnostic departments, its work in the field of cancer gene therapy will lead research Center .
Recall that the 10-year-old Dima Rogachev, who suffered from a severe form of leukemia in 2005, wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin, then the walls of the children's hospital they met. Two weeks later, it was decided to build a new cancer center, which began only in late 2008. The boy died in 2007.