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][3] of Saint Petersburg. The fund provided for a new 7-bed pediatric intensive care unit,[6] purchased a heart-lung machine,[7] and underwrote a complete renovation of the congenital surgery operating suite.[8] In addition, RMF advocated the continuation of U.S. funding for civil society programs there[9] and co-sponsored humanitarian and medical work being done by a related organization, Global Healing.[10]
The organization was created as a private foundation in 1996[3] and continued operations until 2008.[11] The fund was affiliated with the American International Health Alliance.[12]
Schanke, Jerry, "Giving the Gift of Life," Vienna Times, 16 August 2001, pp. A1, A7
PetersburgCity News, 20 June 2001, "A new heart surgery room opened in Children's City Hospital No. 1" City section, front page
Civil Society International, website, "International Organizations: Health and Medicine"
Children's Hospital No. 1, St. Petersburg, Cardiac Surgery Department website
PetersburgCity News, City section, front page
King, Sheri, "To Russia, with Love," The Middletown Journal, 22 September 2001, local news, p. B5
Johnson's Russia List, website, 20 February 2006, letter to the editor, "Less Money for Democracy"
Global Healing, website, "Contributors"
Firedoglake, website, 24 November 2008, "Russian Medical Fund"
American International Health Alliance, website, "All AIHA Strategic Partners"
- American International Health Alliance, website, "All AIHA Strategic Partners".
- Cardiac Surgery Department, Children's Hospital Number 1, St. Petersburg, Russia, website.
- Civil Society International, website, "International Organizations: Health and Medicine".
- Firedoglake, website, 24 November 2008, "Russian Medical Fund".
- Global Healing, Berkeley, California, website, "Contributors".
- Johnson's Russia List, website, 20 February 2006, #27 - JRL 2006-43 - JRL Home.
- King, Sheri, "To Russia, with Love," The Middletown Journal, Middletown, Ohio, 22 September 2001, local news, p. B5.
- PetersburgCity News, St. Petersburg, Russia, 20 June 2001, City news section, "A new heart surgery room opened in Children's City Hospital No. 1".
- Schanke, Jerry, "Giving the Gift of Life," Vienna Times, Vienna, Virginia, 16 August 2001, pp. A1, A7.
