The department includes 30 beds. The personnel provide the specialized care for children and teenagers with blood and hemopoietic organs pathology.

Hematology Department for Children renders the diagnostic and medical help to patients with the following diseases:

• Acute  and chronic leucosis;
• Malignant lymphomas including lymphogranulomatosis;
• Malignant histiocytosis;
• Hereditary and acquired anemias;
• Hemopoiesis depressions : hypoplastic  anemias, agranulocytosis , etc.;
• Hemorrhagic diathesises: hereditary, including  hemophilia and acquired ones;
• Storage diseases : Gaucher’s disease, Nyman-Peak disease, etc.;
• Reactive state of hemopoietic and  lymphatic systems;
• Acute vascular purpura

Current methods of diagnostics and treatment of blood and hemopoietic organs diseases are used at the department:

• Various kinds of biopsies (trepanobiopsy, peripheral lymph nodes biopsy);
• Blood smear and marrow tests , lymph nodes and  other organs imprints, histological preparations;
• Cytochemical, immunological, cytognetic analysis of marrow;
• Hemostasis system study( hemostasiogram, thrombocyte aggregatogram, definition of amount of the 8th  and 9th  factors of blood coagulation );
• Selection of up-to-date protocols on polychemotherapy with forecasting of oncohematological diseases outcome;
• Diagnostics and treatment of thrombocytopenia with use of intravenous antibody.

Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leucosis is provided under the Treatment Protocol ‘Moscow - Berlin 2002’. The scope of examination , treatment  quality level and results of treatment correspond to standards of the Republican Research Children's Oncology and Hematology Center in Minsk, Scientific Research Institute of Children's Hematology of Moscow and other Russian clinics participating in the Russian - Belarusian cooperative group on research of acute lymphoblastic leucosis  at children.

Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leucosis relapses is provided under the report of the cooperative group ALL-BFM (Berlin-Frankfurt-Munster, Germany)-REC2002 BRK (Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan).

Personnel:

Irina P. ROMASHEVSKAYA - Head of the Department, Top category hematologist, a post-graduate student on the base of the Republican Research Children's Oncology and Hematology Center in Minsk since 2004; The author of 6 articles in Russian and Belarusian medical editions.

Oksana N. KOSTIKOVA - Top category hematologist

Dmitry K. NOVIK - Hematologist of the 1st category

Ekaterina F. MITSURA - Hematologist of the 2nd category

There were established connections with the pedagogical staff of the Musical - Pedagogical College and Gomel State University named after Francisk Skaryna. The pedagogical staff of Gomel high school #15 provides teaching for patients - schoolboys with issuing of study progress checklists. Thus, children with heavy hematological diseases have an opportunity not to miss the school year.

The department invited the psychologist for working within the framework of the joint Belarusian-German contract “Psychosocial Service for Children with Cancer and their Relatives”. The activity of the psychologist is multifarious: psychodiagnostic work, psychoconsultative and correctional work, work with a family (parents), information-educational work.

On-Going International Projects in the Department:

1. The project on rendering psychosocial and medical aid to children with oncohematological diseases between the Republican Research Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology , Belarus  and the Evangelic community of Alzey city  of the Federal Republic of Germany;
2. The project “Psychosocial Service for Children  with Cancer and their Relatives in Children's Hematology Department in Gomel, Belarus” between RRCRM & HE , Belarus  and the Ministry of the Land  Baden-Wurttemberg, ”Help to the East Europe” Coordination Department  and the evangelic man's society “Friends of  the Chernobyl Children”, Stuttgart, the  Federal Republic of Germany.

There were established contacts with the following foreign charitable organizations:

1. "Help to Chernobyl Children" (Aichah-Friedberg, Germany)
2. "Help to Chernobyl Children from Gomel" (Otzberg, Germany)
3. Charitable fund “Let’s Help Them Live” (Villa di Tirana, Italy)
4. A society “Help to Chernobyl Children” (Hanover, Germany)