The Pirogov Hospital



Admin on the left - Gate house access on the right

Arriving at the Hospital on the first day you will need to enter the administration building (small building) to the left of the main gate. If you've arrived with the Hospital driver this is easy to navigate. By yourself, you'll have to enter this administration building and ask for Anastasia. She will meet you and take you through into the hospital.

On your first day, Anastasia will issue you with gate passes - a piece of paper roughly A5 in size with a stamp, written in Russian. It pays to write your name on the back if your with your patient as it's difficult to figure out which pass is yours.

From then on, you'll enter and leave the hospital through the gate house (on the right of the gate as you enter).

Below is a map of the hospital and some photos of the grounds. The grounds are beautiful and you will come to enjoy them over your stay.  On the first sign of frost many of the flower beds were pulled out, so enjoy them while you can. While we were there they built a smokers hut so that smokers didn't have to exit the grounds to smoke.

You will be based on the 2nd and 3rd floors for the stay. The 4th floor was under renovation for use in the future for HSCT patients.

Inside the hospital it is very warm. We visited in Oct/Nov, the start of the colder months for Moscow. Some days it was -10 C. But inside the hospital (and every shopping centre I visited) it was +25 C. I made the mistake the first few days of having thermals on to travel. You'll only need a T-shirt inside the hospital. I recommend dressing so that you can easily remove jackets, jumpers etc on arrival.

There is small café on the grounds (see map below).

Walking from the gate to the HSCT ward

Main entrance	On the other side of the gate, head straight under the overpass	Turn slightly to your right and head for the left hand corner of the building
Wheelchair ramp to the building (see "Ramp" on the map below)	Turn right at the corner	Turn right again and you will see the door

Map of Hospital grounds. Hospital Café is at Location No.1

Some more pictures of the grounds...