Medical Tourism (City Hospital No40)

City Hospital No40 of Kurortny District is one of the largest hospitals in St. Petersburg capable of treating over 1,000 in-patients. It is a leading medical institution in terms of patient capacity for rehabilitation treatment and aftercare in Russia. The hospital is famous for its equipment, excellent condition of material and technical base. The most advanced technologies available in medicine today are used here. As one of the best healthcare institutions in St. Petersburg, the hospital is widely known and in demand among patients throughout the country and abroad. It offers 25 types of high-tech operations in nine main profiles: oncology, surgery, urology, gynecology, traumatology, neurosurgery, cardiovascular surgery, ophthalmology, and otorhinolaryngology. The hospital applies 148 treatment methods. Many of them are unique in St. Petersburg. City hospital No40 employs 11 Doctors of Medicine, 53 Candidates of Medicine and more than 160 doctors of superior qualification category. Many doctors speak English. Foreign tourists may enjoy wards of enhanced comfort equipped with everything necessary for patient convenience in both pre- and postoperative period. A significant part of the operations involve the Da Vinci Si HD robotic surgical complex which facilitates elaborated minimally invasive surgeries. Hospital No 40 was the first city healthcare institution to be equipped with this surgical system. Nowadays it has performed more than 1 500 operations with the robot. Every fifth robotic operation in Russia is performed in hospital No40. Patients come to Sestroretsk for this purpose both from all regions of the country and from abroad. Rehabilitation treatment and aftercare traditionally remain the main fields of the hospital’s activities. The institution has been a leader in this field for many years. For more than 40 years, the City Center for Rehabilitation Medicine and Aftercare has been operating in hospital No40, with half of the overall city patient capacity for rehabilitation treatment and medical aftercare. More than 250 thousand patients were treated there since its opening. Rehabilitation departments of the hospital have modern equipment, including the latest robotic systems. The Center is constantly introducing and using the advanced rehabilitation medicine developments.