Since 2011, the number of high-tech operations in Moscow has increased almost fivefold.
According to the deputy mayor of the capital for social development, Anastasia Rakova, over the past year the capital's doctors have carried out a record number of operations using high technology. More than 171 thousand surgical interventions were performed on patients of city hospitals, federal and private centers.
The most frequent operations were in the field of cardiovascular surgery (22,8%), orthopedics and traumatology (22,08%), oncology (21,22%). Since 2011 the number of high-tech operations in Moscow has increased almost five times.
The capital's residents can now receive high-tech assistance in 20 profiles in more than 40 hospitals. Specialists of medical institutions apply innovative methods of treatment, such as donor organ transplantation, aortocoronary bypass of heart valves, and endovascular treatment of ischemic stroke.