The following palliative care services are known to exist in Russia:3
Existing Services (2004)
Adult
Inpatient - Freestanding*
60
- Hospital Unit
30
- Hospital mobile team
0
Nursing Home
0
Home Care
0
Day Care
1
Total
91
Paediatric
Inpatient
1
Home Care
1
Day Care
0
Unspecified
0
Total
0
Grand Total
93
*Many of these services also include (sometimes basic) home care teams and day care services
Current Projects
In 2002, the following palliative care projects were known to exist in the Russian Federation; some of these may now be operational services:
Known hospice/ palliative care projects (2002)
Adult
Inpatient - Hospital
10
- Hospice
19
Home Care
0
Unspecified
0
Total
29
Paediatric
Hospital
0
Hospice
0
Home Care
0
Unspecified
0
Total
0
Grand Total
29
Since the first hospice opened in 1990 at Lakhta ( St Petersburg), hospice and palliative care services in the Russian Federation have steadily increased, particularly west of the Urals. In the federal districts, the Central district is known to have 2 departments of palliative medicine (Moscow) and 14 hospices (including Moscow, Tula, Ivanovo and Kursk); The Privolzhsky district has 8 palliative medicine departments (including Kazan, Samara, Dzerzhinsk) and 9 hospices (including Kirov, Perm, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Ufa); the North Western district has 2 palliative medicine departments (Vorkuta, Murmansk) and ten hospices (including Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Pskov, St Petersburg); the Siberian district has 2 palliative medicine departments (Novokuznetsk, Ormsk) and 8 hospices (including Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Ormsk, Tomsk); the Ural district just 1 department of palliative medicine and 3 hospices (including Tyumen, Chelyabinsk); the Southern district also has 1 department of palliative medicine (Rostov-on-don) and 5 hospices (including Astrakhan and Volvograd); and the Far Eastern district has a palliative medicine department and a hospice in Magadan.4
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