ON THE HISTORY OF HISTORICAL HOSPITALS IN TBILISI: FROM THE TIFLIS RAILWAY HOSPITAL TO THE F.I. TODUA CLINIC (TO THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF F.I. TODUA)
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https://doi.org/10.61699/cjmps-v1-i4-p1-20Keywords:
Tbilisi Railway Hospital, Regional Research Clinical and Diagnostic Center, F.I. ToduaAbstract
This article is about the history of the founding of the Tiflis Railway Hospital (opened in 1902) and the activities of academician F.I. Todua – the continuer of the traditions of his eminent predecessors. For over a hundred years, this hospital has been a medical diagnostic and organizational center in the Transcaucasia region and a center for advanced training of medical personnel. In 1922 the «Diagnostic Clinic of Tiflis State University» was opened at the hospital with a well-equipped clinical diagnostic laboratory and an electrocardiological unit directed by DMS Mikhail Tsinamdzgvrishvili. In 1991, the Regional Research Clinical and Diagnostic Center of the Transcaucasian Railway was established at the Tbilisi Railway Hospital. F.I. Todua (DMS, Professor, laureate of the USSR State Prize, Head of the Computed Tomography Laboratory of the National Medical Research Center for Surgery of the Ministry of Health named after A. V. Vishnevsky) was appointed as its director. Some time after the move, the country plunged into the abyss of political and economic chaos. Being a peacemaker by his psychological type, F.I. Todua became a creator of peace in conflicts. Thanks to his ability to adapt, his innovative qualities as a manager, scientist, researcher, mentor, radiologist, and doctor were revealed in a new way. His concept of the development of the institution he led was based on the principles of humanism, on the balance of social and economic efficiency, and on a rational combination of mass and individual medical care. Author of a number of inventions, monographs, and many scientific articles, winner of the State Prize of Georgia in the field of science and technology (1996), member of the editorial board of a number of scientific journals, he paid special attention to scientific activity. After his death on October 7, 2017, the medical institution founded by him was named after him: «the F.I. Todua Clinic». His grandson, George Diasamidze, became the head, who, largely thanks to continuity, pragmatism, and a creative approach to the management of the clinic entrusted to his care, managed to capture the trends of modernity, preserve and multiply its leading positions among medical institutions of the country.
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