Russian Medical Fund

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]

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, Russia. 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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