The rudiments of Transport medicine in Siberia
have come up for the end of 19 century in connection with the construction
of railway, work on the construction of area pathways from Omsk to Ob was
complete in 19th of August 1895.
So Omsk station was beginning to work practically
in autumn 1895. Life on stations in Omsk is brightened noticeably after
Railway Bridge through Irtysh was built.
In collection of the documents on history of the West-Siberian railway
in the section "Device of temporary buildings on st. Omsk" was written
that 2014 roubles 53 kopecks was consumed on the construction of hut for
hospitals.
Newspaper "Stepnoi Krai" (“Steppe land”)
¹136 at 5th of December 1897 wrote that railway hospital on st. Omsk was
opened in 1896, had 20 sickbeds and put in the wooden house.
In 1899 medical attendant Starkova À.Ì.
wrote her husband: "In general our hospital satisfies sanitary requirements
a little. Building is polluted terribly, and part of sick men dies from
diseases that was obtained in the hospital".
In 1903 new building of hospitals was built.
There were 83 beds. Now it is department of radiation oncology.
At that time the railway hospital serviced Atamanovsky
Hamlet that was existed in Omsk (now it is Leninsky region) and where lived
70000 inhabitants. It was consists of Atamanovsky hamlet (former station
Atamanovskaya), Red borough (Krasny Gorodok), Port-Arthur and Semipalatinsky
village. More then half of population who lived there was railwaymen. Also
sick men was brought on the railway.
In 1910 there were only six railway physicians
on st. Omsk and in 1913 there were eight one. There was only one sanitary
physician on the whole railway.
In 1914 on the Omsk railway there were three
hospitals with 145 sickbeds. 20 beds of those hospitals was allotted for
the treatment wounded men by town government deciding.
In 1919 - 1922 there was saturated epidemics
such as cholera, typhuses, pox and the others, so in 1920 there was 300
sickbeds for infectious disease. And for the first time the sanitary organization
of Siberian railway has appeared.
It was foreign intervention, civil war, economic
blockade and disorganization in Russia that led to mass epidemics of typhus
and other infectious diseases. However control of epidemics was kept both
in the town and at the railway. The system of epidemic protection of railwaymen
was already designed. There was conducted mass inoculations against the
abdominal typhus, cholera and many other diseases. And this large work
gave their positive results.
In 1923 – 1924 the network of medical prophylactic
institution increased vastly. So in September 1923 there was opened tuberculous
prophylactic centre, at the beginning of 1924 there was opened an insulator
for trachomatic sick men, in March there was opened venereal prophylactic
centre with in-patient department where were 10 sickbeds. The workshop
of dental plates began to function. Two technicians worked there. At that
time also there was opened the clinical laboratory, where were conducted
gistological annualises.
At the end of 1924 there were 4 hospitals with 230
sickbeds on the whole railway, but Omsk railway hospital had 115 sickbeds.
In that time the outlays on the deal of public health was enlarged in a
twice in comparison with pre-Revolutionary time.
In 1924 632 persons worked in Omsk medical
preventive founding; among them were 71 physicians, 41 school medical attendants,
55 company medical attendants, 34 medical attendant-midwifes, 9 dentists,
20 pharmacists, 12 midwifes, 26 sisters of mercy, 2 desinfector, 20 stretcher-bearers
and 347 other personnel men.
In 1925 a development to network medical
preventive founding on the railway lasted.
In the 4th of March 1925 it was come a resolution
to build a laundry and drying-room at the hospital and devices for keeping
of vegetable reserve.
From the 1st of January till the 1st of August 1925
there was open urological cabinet, where respective specialist was invited.
Since before November 1923 nursery help was rendered
by physicians and medical attendants, but after November it became to be
rendered only physicians, it was decided to organize a children department
of Omsk railway hospital.
In the 21st of August the nursery dispensary-insulator
was opened on st. Omsk. In the 1st of December children medical preventive
station was created. It consisted of a cr?che with 30 beds, infant welfare
centre, teeth cabinet and general cabinet for schoolboys The staff of that
children medical preventive station were 10 persons.
In the 15th of December 1925 the ocular department
began to function in Omsk hospital. There were 15 sickbeds and operating-room.
Also there was equipped movable teeth cabinet.
In 1926 Omsk railway hospital had 150 sickbeds.
There were 30 therapeutic sickbeds, 50 surgical one, 10 venereal one, 15
ocular one, 15 puerperal one, 30 gynaecological one.
In 1932 there was completed construction
of two-storey hospital building and so the number of sickbeds increased
greatly.
In August 1940 Permitin Nikolay Antonovich
was appointed the chief hospitals and he worked in this job till 1948.
The period of this main physician work coincides
with wartime.
Many physicians, medical attendants, medical sisters,
young personnel and other took part in Great Patriotic War. All of their
was commended by combat rewards.
After the end of War an expansion of hospitals continued,
and in 1948 number of stationary sickbeds reached 570. There were 153 physicians
and 336 average medical personnel. There were seven departments in the
hospital. The therapeutic department had 115 sickbeds, the surgical department
had 150 one, the department of obstetrics and gynaecology had 150 one,
the children department had 85 one, the ocular department had 25 one, the
department of hearing and breathing had 20 one, the department of skin
and venereal medicine had 25 one.
Since the day of its openings the hospital
was being called "The Omsk railway hospital on Omsk station of the Omsk
Railway". But since some faculties of the Omsk medical institute came on
the railway hospital base in the thirties the hospital had gained a status
of clinical hospital and till 1961 it was called "The Omsk railway clinical
hospital on Omsk station".
In 1961 the railway hospital was renamed to "The
road clinical hospital on Omsk station of West-Siberian railway".
From the 23rd of March of 1962 and till
present time the railway hospital was named "The Departmental Clinical
hospital on the Omsk station".
In the December of 1969 there was opened
the oncological department, where there were 50 sickbeds. The subdivision
of radiation therapy began to work in that department.
In 1972 there was organized the department
of anaesthesiology and reanimation with the chamber intensive therapy.
In 1974 after the heavy repair and reconstruction
of one-story building there was extended the department of skin and venereal
medicine, where was increased the sickbeds on 20 one. Also there was extended
and was improved condition of working the blood transfusion station and
cabinet of dental plates.
In 1975 there was introduced the endoscopical
methods of reseach.
In 1978 the construction of new children
polyclinic was finished.
And in that year there was improved the first aid
in the stationaroes of departments. Six physicians, among them three surgeons
and anaesthesiologist, began to be on duty day-and-night. X-ray photography
laboratory assistants were on day-and-night duty. But since 1978 the clinical
laboratory assistants and biochemical laboratory one began to duty on round-the-clock
work too. Also the record of electric cardiogram became to be conducted
night and day in the first aid.
In 1979 there was started in the usage
the standard garage, where could get in 20 sanitary machines.
In 1980 there was started in the exploitation
the newly built five-storey stationary building that was enable to perfect
conditions of functioning the departments. Number of stationary sickbeds
became 470.
In the eighties before the opening the city first-aid
hospitals the railway hospital conducted a great work of rendering the
first aid to inhabitants of Leninskiy region and all city on surgery and
urology.
In the eighties and nineties the main and auxiliary
departments were increased and equipped by more modern medical equipment.
In the second half of 1993 there was joined
the nodal hospital on st. Omsk, which was situated on the 5th Maryanovskaya
street with the railway hospital. At present that hospital is the therapeutic
building, in which is placed seven therapeutic departments.
As a result of all associations and reorganization
the railway hospital became to have 810 sickbeds, 16 stationary departments
of nearly all profiles and five polyclinics (three polyclinics for adults
and three ones for children).
In 1995 the polyclinic of stations Vhodnaya
was joined with the railway hospital and became the fourth adult polyclinic
in the hospital united.
In 1996 there was built two-story receiving-building
of the surgical department.
And in that time the physiotherapeutic hospital
of st. Omsk was joined with the railway hospital.
The hospital became to have 920 sickbeds and 18
stationary departments.
For perfecting social-home conditions of hospital’s
workmen there was opened a bakery and a shop on the territory of medical
organization.
The railway hospital become one of leading on the
West-Siberian railway in powers and methods of diagnostics and treatments.