Russian Medical Fund

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Russian Medical Fund was a humanitarian organization founded in Vienna, Virginia, [1] to support medical care for children in Saint Petersburg, Russia, during the post-Soviet period. [2] [3]

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Russian Medical Fund provided supplies, equipment, and physician training [4] to the pediatric cardiac unit of Children's Hospital #1 [5] [6] of Saint Petersburg. The fund provided for a new 7-bed pediatric intensive care unit, [7] purchased a heart-lung machine, [8] and underwrote a complete renovation of the congenital surgery operating suite. [9] In addition, RMF advocated the continuation of U.S. funding for civil society programs there [10] and co-sponsored humanitarian and medical work being done by a related organization, Global Healing. [11]

The organization was created as a private foundation in 1996 [12] and continued operations until 2008. [13] The fund was affiliated with the American International Health Alliance. [14]

Notes

  1. ↑ Schanke, Jerry, "Giving the Gift of Life," Vienna Times, 16 August 2001, pp. A1, A7
  2. ↑ PetersburgCity News, 20 June 2001, "A new heart surgery room opened in Children's City Hospital No. 1" City section, front page
  3. ↑ GuideStar USA website, "Russian Medical Fund" organization # 54-1869946
  4. ↑ Civil Society International, website, "International Organizations: Health and Medicine"
  5. ↑ Children's Hospital No. 1, St. Petersburg, Cardiac Surgery Department website
  6. ↑ GuideStar, "Russian Medical Fund"
  7. ↑ PetersburgCity News, City section, front page
  8. ↑ King, Sheri, "To Russia, with Love," The Middletown Journal, 22 September 2001, local news, p. B5
  9. ↑ Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin, 1 October 2002, p. 49
  10. ↑ Johnson's Russia List, website, 20 February 2006, letter to the editor, "Less Money for Democracy"
  11. ↑ Global Healing, website, "Contributors"
  12. ↑ GuideStar, "Russian Medical Fund"
  13. ↑ Firedoglake, website, 24 November 2008, "Russian Medical Fund"
  14. ↑ American International Health Alliance, website, "All AIHA Strategic Partners"

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