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Moscow healthcare services announce ICUs allow relatives to visit patients

All of Moscow’s intensive care units have opened their doors to visiting relatives

MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. All of Moscow’s intensive care units (ICU) have opened their doors to visiting relatives, the press service of the Moscow Health Care Department told TASS on Monday.

"The support of relatives and friends is extremely important for successful treatment. Now all the city hospitals have opened their intensive care units for visiting," head of the department Alexei Khripun said, according to the press service.

He reiterated that in 2017 a pilot project was launched in Moscow in a number of general hospitals, which focused on the optimization of a model of cooperation between ICU medical staff members and patients’ relatives staying there. The visiting procedure is set in a visit reminder, which was outlined by the department’s experts and is available in each in-patient facility.

The press service noted that certain procedures and resuscitation measures do not allow the presence of visitors. In addition, the work conditions in such units have a number of extra requirements concerning silence and cleanliness, and the actions of the staff are chiefly required to comply with the interests of a patient and the rules for the assigned therapy. These demands include sterile clothes and not more than two visitors present in the ICU at a time.