Rauchfus Children’s Hospital

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RAUCHFUS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL (before 1918 Prince Oldenburg's Children’s Hospital) (8 Ligovsky Avenue), was built in 1869 (architect A.K. Cavos) on the initiative of the Prince P.G. Oldenburg (hence the hospital's original name) and paediatrician K. A. Rauchfus (from 1918 the hospital was named after him). It was intended for children of both sexes, mainly of poor parents. For the first time in the history of Russian medicine patients of the hospital were placed according to the profile of their illness. The hospital includes therapeutic and surgical wards, departments for patients with smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles and also an ambulance ward. For the first time in Russian medical practice there were several departments that were available to all patients: ENT, neurological department, and a box-ward for infants (1927). During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 children with alimentary dystrophy, pneumonia, scalds and wounds were treated in the hospital. Now it is the multi-disciplinary hospital with 420 beds (70% of them are specialised). It is the clinical base of the Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education and the ambulance centre for asthma patients. In the building one can see the memorial plaque dedicated to the foundation and opening of the hospitals with the names of the Prince of Oldenburg, Rauchfus and one of the first Russian female doctors A.I. Shabanova.

References: Очерк устройства и двадцатипятилетней деятельности Детской больницы принца Петра Ольденбургского. СПб., 1894; Опыт работы детской городской больницы № 19 им. К. А. Раухфуса: (К 130-летию больницы): Сб. науч. тр. СПб., 1999.

T. I. Grekova. Cavos Albert Katarinovich
Oldenburgsky Peter (Konstantin Friedrich Peter) Georgievich, Prince
Rauchfus Karl Andreevich
Shabanova Anna Nikolaevna
Ligovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Очерк устройства и двадцатипятилетней деятельности Детской больницы принца Петра Ольденбургского. СПб., 1894
Опыт работы детской городской больницы № 19 им. К. А. Раухфуса: (К 130-летию больницы): Сб. науч. тр. СПб., 1999 Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education
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