A center for high-tech prosthetics and comprehensive rehabilitation has opened in St. Petersburg.

A Center for high-tech prosthetics and comprehensive rehabilitation has opened in St. Petersburg. The opening ceremony was attended by the Governor of the city, Alexander Beglov, and other officials. This was reported in the city administration.

"The President has set us the task of creating such a center for participants in a special military operation. To create technological productions in order to make prosthetics that meet the most modern standards. Now our developments are in many ways superior to foreign designs," said Governor Alexander Beglov. He added that the center will become an important part of the integrated system of assistance to veterans of the military district created in the city.

The institution, which opened in Pinsky Lane, is a branch of the Center for Innovations in Traumatology and Orthopedics. The building covers an area of more than 1.5 thousand square meters. m. There is special rehabilitation equipment, which is used by specialists in the field of orthopedics and adaptive physical education.

Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec State Corporation, who took part in the opening ceremony of the new center, said that on behalf of the president, it is planned to create 25 branches of the CITO in different parts of the country by 2027. A branch in the village of Goluboe, Moscow region, will soon begin accepting patients. Construction is also continuing in Kemerovo, Omsk and Arkhangelsk.

"Modern prosthetics technologies are already allowing patients, including military personnel with severe injuries, to return to a full life. Many of them can even practice sports with the help of our high—tech developments, for example, alpine skiing or weightlifting," Chemezov emphasized.

During the opening ceremony, Anna Tsivileva, head of the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation, Alexander Beglov and Sergey Chemezov signed a trilateral cooperation agreement between the city, the foundation and the state corporation. The agreements are aimed at providing the center with technical rehabilitation facilities and staff training.