Within the framework of the project “Breathe Life” of AYALA Charity Foundation a modern resuscitation table and phototherapy apparatuses have been purchased for Almaty Regional Children Clinical Hospital. The total cost of this stage of the project in Almaty Regional Children Clinical Hospital is 6,260,000 KZT. The sponsor was VILED Group.

Currently an in-patient department of the hospital lacks modern medical equipment for delivery of highly skilled medical aid to children. Especially this problem affects the resuscitation department.

“Now there are already four resuscitation tables in the department. Our department is designed for 20 beds. AYALA Charity Foundation has already gifted us two tables, we had two own tables, but one of them has been out of order. Now there are four tables again, the new one was installed right after the New Year, we already use it. Our resuscitation tables are almost never empty. There were 271 premature babies in the hospital; overall there were 467 newborns in 2017. A year earlier the birth rate of premature infants was at the same level,” the head of the neonatal department of Almaty Regional Children Clinical Hospital Ainur Alimbekova said.

A resuscitation table is a multicomponent medical device that allows tracking life parameters of a tiny patient - body temperature, pressure, pulse. Also a resuscitation table maintains body temperature of premature newborns, whose thermoregulation system has not been fully formed yet. 

A phototherapy apparatus is intended for drug-free and effective treatment of newborn jaundice. A strictly adjusted wavelength of light destroys the pigment of bilirubin causing jaundice. But this is only an external manifestation of the toxic effect of excess bilirubin. The central nervous system of a child suffers the most from prolonged jaundice. Consequently, the rapid arresting of jaundice is a contribution to the future intellectual development of a newborn. An alternative to a non-invasive method of phototherapy is a complex and unsafe operation of a complete replacement blood transfusion to a child.

It should be noted that the project “Breathe Life” is aimed at helping resuscitation departments of children hospitals in Kazakhstan. It started in 2007, when AYALA Foundation helped the resuscitation department of the Children City Infectious Diseases Hospital (CCIDH) of Almaty with equipment. In particular, an artificial lung ventilation apparatus, a semi-automatic laboratory, a phototherapy apparatus, an infant incubator and other medical equipment were purchased and installed.

“We were convinced of the effectiveness of our long-term project "Breathe Life" - over 55 thousand children were saved across Kazakhstan. For an incomplete 11 years 442,926,196 KZT was invested in the project - 32 cities, 52 institutions were covered, 500 specialists took professional development courses,” the president of AYALA Charity Foundation Aidan Suleimenova said.

Almaty Regional Children Clinical Hospital was opened in November 2011 within the framework of the ‘100 schools, 100 hospitals’ program, here they treat children from the southern parts of Almaty region. According to statistics, at the time of the opening 314,698 children needed this help, 26,451 children were aged under one year old.

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