24.07.2024

The first fetal was successfully conducted in the National Research Center for Maternal and Child Health of Astana (NRCMCH) supported by AYALA Charitable Foundation and as a part of the workshop of the fetal surgeon from the Republic of Belarus Maxim Vladimirovich Beluga (the Republican Scientific and Practical Center “Mother and Child”, Minsk). Our Foundation organized the visit of Maxim Vladimirovich to Kazakhstan.

Fetal malformation was revealed in a woman in the 17^th week of gestation. The prenatal board of doctors made the decision on the intrauterine drainage of fetal bladder. This intervention was necessary to prevent the pulmonary hypoplasia and preserve the normal kidney function of the unborn baby.

This operation was successful. The condition of patient is stable; the fetal development is monitored and controlled in dynamics.

The fetal surgery is a new field of medicine in the Republic of Kazakhstan. It includes the prenatal operations and invasive interventions in order to reduce the disability of children since birth.

The first prenatal operations were conducted in the Republic of Kazakhstan by the Center for Perinatology and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery of Almaty in June of this year. Also these operative interventions are conducted in the National Research Center for Maternal and Child Health of Astana. Diaphragmatic hernia corrections, TTC syndrome, sacro-coccygeal teratoma and other congenital malformations shall be operated here in future.

Our Foundation has been helping the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan to develop the fetal surgery in the Republic of Kazakhstan since 2023. We paid the training of 9 doctors abroad, organized 5 workshops and seminars with a participation of leading international fetal surgery specialists. We equipped the fetal surgery department in the Center for Perinatology and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery of Almaty with the required medical devices.