Doctors at the Akmola Regional Children's Hospital in Kokshetau are fighting for the life of five-year-old Aldiyar from the remote village of Selety in the Yereymentau district: the child suffered a deep scald burn, and for the first three days his parents treated him at home with soap and ointments, which significantly worsened the little patient's condition, reports infohub.kz.
The boy, who dreamed of flying in a helicopter, was taken to the hospital aboard an Emergency Situations Ministry aircraft that arrived in the remote village on an urgent call. As Petr Redkozubov, a doctor in the surgery department of the Akmola Regional Children's Hospital, said, the child had a deep burn with blisters filled with purulent content, because medical help was sought only after three days.
"They stayed at home, engaged in self-treatment, they smeared soap, smeared ointment on the burn surface, which made the burn disease more severe," the source quotes Petr Redkozubov as saying.
In the end, medics had to resort to intensive care, dressings under anesthesia, necrectomy — an operation to remove dead tissue — and skin transplantation. For Aldiyar's 34-year-old mother of many children, this month felt like an eternity: the child still has difficulty standing and walking, and his legs and abdomen are covered with scars.
"My son suffered greatly, it was hard. He scalded himself with boiling water while playing. Now everything is fine, thanks to the doctors, they saved my son. We thought we would cure him ourselves, he stayed at home, now I advise everyone: go to doctors immediately," said the boy's mother, Tautek Meiram.
Doctors at the regional children's hospital note that burn patients have increased: since the beginning of the year, 175 children with this diagnosis have passed through the department. After them, children with foreign bodies inside their bodies — balls, batteries, coins — become frequent patients in surgery. New medical equipment is used to treat them.
"Endoscopic equipment, we have the ability to visually record the manipulations we perform. We have two laparoscopic devices that we use to the maximum. For plastic surgery, we have a dermatome device that removes skin and performs autodermoplasty," explained Yernar Kozhabekov, head of the surgery department at the Akmola Regional Children's Hospital.
Since the beginning of the year, 8,500 children have been treated at the regional children's hospital. More than two thousand of them were operated on by nine doctors from the surgery department. And each operation among these thousands is another story of saving boys and girls from the Akmola region and neighboring North Kazakhstan region.