"To preserve human dignity until the last day": For the first time in Russia, a state-owned hospice has been transferred to the management of a charitable foundation.
Authorities Leningrad region transferred the building of a state hospice, which operates 25 km from the city, to a non-profit organization Vyborg — in the village The Soviet.
From now on, the former department of the district hospital will be called the House of Mercy, and its management will be handled by Charitable Foundation "Vera", which was created Nyuta Federmesser and has been specializing in helping Russian hospices for 20 years.
"This is the first time in the country that a region has handed over a hospice to a charitable organization, recognizing that this is the path to improved care." noted the Federmesser.
She emphasized that before handing over the building, the authorities carried out renovations and purchased new equipment and furniture. Furthermore, the region retained state funding.
“These are royal conditions,”confessed Federmesser to journalists. - T“The Vera Foundation has never had anything like this before.”
The funds raised by the charity will improve the lives of patients and go beyond the "state tariff"—for example, by organizing massages, inviting private doctors, and so on.
The House of Mercy has already established a 24-hour visiting schedule for relatives (previously, they could only visit between 1:00 PM and 5:00 PM). Tea corners have also been set up for patients' relatives, providing everything they need to "sit down and relax." A 24-hour support line has been launched, and a mobile service vehicle has been purchased.
The foundation has also begun fulfilling the wishes of its patients themselves: for example, one of them will soon be given a long-awaited fishing trip, something that was not possible within the state institution.
“My team and I know one thing: everything will work out,” Federmesser is convinced. We can make this hospice about a life without pain. About loved ones not being tossed about in anxiety, but simply being there. About preserving human dignity until the last day."
Such government generosity toward NGOs is rare in modern Russia. In recent years, charitable foundations have been shut down after the state labeled them "foreign agents" or "undesirable organizations." Yekaterinburg, for example, last week eliminated The New Time Foundation, which helped HIV patients and was unable to pay a 300 ruble foreign agency fine.
В Krasnodar region on the verge of closing turned The Good South Foundation, which helped people with mental disabilities.
And the director of the capital's hospice "House with a Lighthouse" Lida Moniava has become A defendant in a criminal case for "discrediting the army" for a Telegram post from 2023. Incidentally, the founder of the "House with a Lighthouse" hospice is the same Vera charity foundation.
Photo: Vyborg TV
