Centers for the care of premature babies have been launched in Moscow in the testing mode

A project of early—stage care centers has been launched in Moscow. They are designed to proactively help premature babies, Anastasia Rakova, Deputy Mayor of the capital for Social Development, told Izvestia in an interview.

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"We hope that from September 1 we will launch it in full," she said.

Early care centers are focused on children who were born prematurely, were born with extremely low body weight, as well as on children who experienced critical situations during the birth process and were on a ventilator. There are currently four such centers operating in the city, and it is planned to increase their number to 16.

"120 thousand children are born in the capital every year. About 6-7% of them require such early proactive monitoring," said the deputy mayor.

Even in the maternity hospital, every mother who has such a special child is offered to gain a foothold in one of these centers, there are now four of them in the city, they are open on the basis of large multidisciplinary hospitals — and a multidisciplinary team of neurologists, cardiologists, neonatologists, surgeons will guide this child.

Rakova added that currently the infant mortality rate in the capital is extremely low — 3.3 per thousand newborns.

"These are the best world standards. In ten years, infant mortality in the city has decreased 2.5 times, 99% of children with low body weight are now surviving, the vast majority of children with extremely low body weight — 500-600 grams — are surviving," she said.

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