The most modern Children’s Rehabilitation Clinic in the Baltic States was opened in Kaunas clinics
According to the medical institution, the clinic has robotic gait trainers, interactive robots for hand motor recovery, a computer -based 3D motion analysis, a sensory room and therapeutic kitchen.
This equipment will help children with brain injuries, strokes, cerebral palsy, chronic movement disorders, fractures, and will allow the patient to select the best treatment for orthopedic, neurosurgery.
« It is a robotic equipment that allows patients who do not have a function, for example, cannot walk, build vertically and help robot to perform legs, hands, even if they can’t do it, » said Kęstutis Stašaitis, a hospital director at the official clinic on Tuesday.
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According to him, there are no such rehabilitation machines in any other medical institutions in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
According to the director for medicine and nursing, the activity in the new building is carried out since September last year, but so far there were no specialists who could work with the above equipment.
« For a while, there were equipment, there were specialists near our specialists who taught patients with small groups how to control the equipment, because it is a really difficult management, it requires special competences, knowledge, technical and additional we did not, » Stašaitis said.
According to Kaunas clinics, about 300 children can be treated a year in hospital for the new rehabilitation clinic building, and up to 3 thousand more outpatient services and day inpatient services can be provided. patients.
The need is certainly growing and considering that growing need at the Ministry of Health to expand the range of services.
In addition, all Kaunas clinics rehabilitation services have been provided to children in the Kindergarten Rehabilitation Hospital in Vilijampolė district. With the opening of a new building, the clinic complex separates the rehabilitation and behavioral movement of children’s motion movement.
« We have separated those two services – motion correction and rehabilitation will be concentrated here in Kaunas clinics, as patients who suffer from injuries, have serious neurological diseases or have some neurosurgical intervention.
« Correction of behavior remains in our branch in » Kindergarten, « there will be concentrated and specialized in this field, » he added.
Renaldas Jurkevičius, Director General of Kaunas Clinics, noted that the health promotion of mother and child is one of the main priorities of the institution’s activities. According to him, in the clinics, the most important areas of children’s medicine had to be enabled to start rehabilitation in these patients with their treatment in the hospital, as in adults.
« We have implemented the most advanced children’s rehabilitation technology in the new unit, so we can now provide the highest level of rehabilitation services that are the best clinics in the world, » the clinics quote R. Jurkevičius.
Minister of Health Marija Jakubauskienė told reporters that with greater financial capabilities of rehabilitation services, « more could be offered, especially for children with developmental disorders ».
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« This center broadens those opportunities and consider that it is an important symbolic moment of access to service availability. The need is certainly growing and, considering that growing need, we are considering expanding the range of services at the Ministry of Health, » said M. Jakubauskienė.
The total value of the project is $ 7.9 million. of them EUR 6.4 million. EUR 1.5 million. euros for modern children’s rehabilitation equipment. 2.9 million The remainder of the European Regional Development Fund was funded by Kaunas Clinic.
