Norwegian and Russian surgeons cooperate
Norwegian specialists on surgery and treatment of children born with cleft-lip-palate syndrome are in Murmansk to collaborate with Russian colleagues.
While in Murmansk, the Norwegian surgeons will conduct several operations together with their Russian colleagues, GTRK Murman reports. In the first operation, three Norwegian and one Russian surgeon operated an orphan girl with congenital speech defect.
Norwegian specialists on surgery and treatment of children born with cleft-lip-palate syndrome have cooperated with colleagues in Russian for several years. From the Norwegian side, the work is led by the Department of Plastic Surgery at the Haukeland University Hospital. In Russia the Regional Children Hospital in Arkhangelsk, Murmansk Oblast Clinical Hospital and Syktyvkar District Hospital are participants in the project.
The main objective for the project is an introduction of modern treatment methods, with emphasis on multidisciplinary professional approach and collaboration between local teams, the project’s web page reads.
- We want to help establish a team approach in treatment of patients in Russia, says plastic surgeon Dr. Paul Gravem to GTRK Murman. – You have specialists who are excellent on their field, but you lack the needed multidisciplinary team approach to treatment of pathologies, he says.
Oral surgeon Dr. Natalya Sotnikova from Murmansk agrees: - We used to have a strong division between surgery and rehabilitation. Working in a team helps preventing mistakes to be made in the treatment of patients, she says.
The Norwegian Barents Secretariat has financed part of the projects through The Barents Health Programme.
