Charity program "World Without Tears"

 

One of the major tasks of VTB Bank charity is assistance to socially vulnerable population such as orphans and disabled children. The Bank assists to children's healthcare institutions and orphanages on a regular basis. It also allocates significant funds for support of educational programs. The main principle of VTB charity policy is targeted assistance within its own corporate programs.  Thus the Bank created World Without Tears charity program to support children's healthcare institutions.

VTB corporate charity program World Without Tears aims to support children's healthcare institutions. It is a long-term program envisaging targeted assistance only.

July 17, 2004 is considered the birthday of the program. On that day, VTB donated a modern intensive care unit with unique Montessori - class equipment to Moscow regional children's psychoneurological hospital. The equipment helps to cure children with locomotor apparatus disorder. The same year, VTB purchased and donated a year's supply of rare and specific blood cleansing medication as well as controlled blood transfusion systems to haematology department of Morozov children's municipal research clinic.

In December 2004, N.Filatov children's municipal research clinic №13  (Moscow) was donated unique equipment for modern diagnostics of otolaryngologic diseases. This equipment allows to understand the necessity of operative treatment and assess the results of an operation. 

On October 21, 2004, VTB held a field campaign under World Without Tears charity campaign in Beslan recreation center.  Junior pupils of the city met with the heroes of children's television program "Good night, kids!". Host of the program Oksana Fedorova, composer Gigory Gladkov and funny clowns gave an unforgettable performance whereas the heroes of the program Khrusha, Stepashka and Mishutka gave presents to the children.

On July 13, 2005, VTB Bank donated modern equipment for major surgery of the highest complexity (a universal electrosurgical complex) to N.Filatov children's municipal research clinic №13.  Thanks to VTB, Filatov research clinic became the country's first children's healthcare institution to operate equipment of such high precision.  

 

      

On November 16, 2005 VTB arranged a holiday for inmates of Children's homes in the Moscow House of music. More than 400 of junior pupils saw performances of well-known animal trainers, clowns, and other circus artists with participation of children music composer Grigory Gladkov, The hosts of the concert were Oksana Fedorova and heroes of "Good night, kids!" TV program Khrusha, Stepashka and Mishutka. 

On July 28, 2006, the target of World Without Tears program became Russian children's clinical hospital, which was donated a complex of endoscopic equipment, a device of new generation allowing to conduct the most complex diagnostics and painless operations without blood loss. On March 1, 2007, St.Peterburg N.Filatov children's infectious diseases hospital №5 was donated unique endoscopic equipment allowing doctors to render efficient and timely  assistance to small patients with minimal harm to their organisms. This equipment will be used in urgent and planned treatment: the new complex helps to conduct high precision diagnostics and sparing bloodless operations saving children from many complex and painful procedures.
 
On July 27, 2007, Speransky Children's municipal clinic №9 (Moscow) received an urodynamics research system, a unique present from VTB Bank. Used by experienced doctors it offers great opportunities for sparing operations in children urology and surgery.

On November 7, 2007 VTB Bank donated essential equipment to the department of oncohematology of Russian children's clinical hospital. It was an automatic station for preparation of cytological medications for genetic researches and infusion system B.Braun Space.

On February 5, 2008, VTB Bank donated modern cystoscopic equipment to the urology department of Children municipal hospital №1 (St. Petersburg). New German equipment Olympus OES Pro permits to introduce minimally invasive operations into surgery practice of the hospital which enables doctors to conduct surgical treatment of diseases at an early age and contribute to faster recovery of a child. This equipment is developed and produced in accordance with the latest achievements in urology and belongs to the latest generation of cystoscopic equipment. Therapeutic cystourethroscope and a compact cystoscope are made of hi-technology materials which increases its life and simplifies treatment. Moreover the integrated design and well designed elements of the device make everyday activity of doctors and nurses easier. 

On April 2, 2008 VTB transferred funds to Speransky Children's municipal clinic №9 (Moscow) to purchase antisiphonal devices for patients of neurosurgical department. Children with hydrocephaly have excessive brain fluid and as a consequence high intracranial pressure harming brain tissues. It results in poor blood supply and nutrition of brain cells and even problematic development of small children. If not treated properly, it may lead to irreversible changes in the central nervous system. One of the methods to treat hydrocephaly is to carry off spinal fluid from a brain ventricle to other organism cavities with help of special bypassing systems. A bypassing system is usually implanted for term of life and continuously evacuates excessive fluid from brain. To control the quantity of the fluid carried off, and maintain intracranial pressure within normal limits it is necessary to implant an extra antisiphonal device. VTB sponsored a purchase of 120 antisiphonal devices, and thus provided the clinic with an annual supply of such medical devices.     

 

On April 4, 2008, VTB donated a universal, modern machine for artificial lung ventilation Inspiration LS to  N.Filatov children's municipal research clinic №13 (Moscow). This device meets every modern medical requirement. It is used to artificially ventilate lungs of children of any age, starting with prematurely born children weighting less than 1000 g. and ending with 15-17 years old teenagers. The machine is highly reliable in terms of ventilation and easy to operate. Safety of a patient is secured by the reliable feedback from the device enabling correction of ventilation. A round table dedicated to the problems of children's traumatism and first aid for children was organized in the clinic that day on the initiative of VTB. Besides VTB invited the heroes of  "Good night , kids!"  Khrusha and Stepashka,   children music composer Grigory Gladkov and well-known athletes Ilona Korstina and Maria Stepanova (Russian national basketball team) to entertain small patients.

On April 16 2008, VTB Bank donated a sensory room to the Special Child rehabilitation hospital in Ekaterinburg. The sensory room helps doctors improve mental growth of children with neuropathy, develop cognitive skills of children with psychoneurological abnormalities, and speech skills of children with hearing and speech disturbance, etc. Training classes in such sensory rooms reduce neurotic reaction and correct motor skills.

On June 26, 2008, in Chelyabinsk, under World Without Tears charity program VTB donated medical equipment for the department of children anaesthesiology and intensive care therapy of the Municipal clinic №9. This equipment will help to replace broken medical equipment and replenish the wards. In particular, the clinic was supplied with the following equipment:

• a bedside monitor of a resuscitator with a МПР 6-03 Triton capnograph for twenty-four-hour monitoring of the basic patient's life functions;
• echoencephalograph Angiodin-ECHO/P allowing to diagnose severe brain traumas, including unconscious children;
• two universal syringe pumps for dosed intravenous administration of medicine;
• irradiator-recirculator Dezar-3 for air disinfection in medical treatment rooms and ICU wards.

On June 30, 2008, VTB Bank transferred funds to 4 oncohematological departments of the Russian children's clinical hospital to purchase anti-fungal medication kansidas. Fungal infections are the scariest threat for the life of patients with blood diseases.  A child can be saved from leukemia but he will die if he does not get an optimal anti-fungal therapy. Today almost all the children in oncohematological departments must get these medications. The medicine fungison is purchased due to government financing, but this medication is very toxic for kidneys and not every patient can tolerate it. Besides, fungison is not always efficient against fungal infections. In order to treat the infections successfully one has to use more efficient and sparing anti-fungal medications like kansidas (kaspofungin), which are not purchased in sufficient volumes by the clinic.

Positive emotions are as important for recovery of the kids as good treatment, that's why meetings with heroes of "Good night, kids!" heroes has become a good tradition of World Without Tears. Khrusha, Stepashka and Mishutka visit small patients, they communicate, play with children, give them good advice, hold contests and concerts.

Children gently get to know the world around and simply have fun with their favorite characters forgetting about their diseases for a while.