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Famous Russian doctor, the President of the Emergency Surgery & Children's Trauma Department of Moscow's Pediatric Scientific Research Institute, M.D. Leonid Roshal celebrates 85th anniversary today, TASS reports.
His name is well-known not only in Russia but also abroad. Roshal has numerous awards and titles. But the most important is that he's called 'Children's Doctor of the World' by thousands of parents from Armenia, Georgia, Egypt, Japan, The US, all over Russia.
He was never planning to help kids in emergency situations, but the he knew he wanted to become a doctor pretty early. For the first time he had to save lives after disaster in 1988 – after horrible earthquake in Armenia.
During the next three decades Roshal was creating the unique system of the emergency assistance for little victims in various extreme situations. There are no analogue to the Emergency Surgery & Children's Trauma Department of Moscow's Pediatric Scientific Research Institute that Roshal has been leading since 1982.
The doctor has not only saved children's lives with his scalpel. Several times he held interaction with terrorists. In 2002, 8 kids were moved out of the danger thanks to his negotiation with terrorists during the Moscow theater on Dubrovka capture. The second case htook place two years later, when Roshal tried to convince hostage-takers to free the kids, parents, teachers during tragic Beslan school hostage crisis.
The Russian President congratulated Leonid Roshal with his ammiversary. Vladimir Putin rightly called him “one of the most bright personalities of the medical society, major healthcare policymaker, and the man of considerable personal courage.”
Russkiy Mir
