The territory of the heart

Svetlana Burago saves life in the territories of the Kemerovo region, where they are growing without medical care - so far they can - hundreds of children with unziped heart defects, to which she brings her cardobrigade

Help the children's heart help

Feast of light and fire

"Svetlana Burago - the organization of holidays leading all hands, give yourself a smile that day." This is from the old luminous profile in social networks ... Palma, “tired, I want to be at sea”, photos in bright dresses, red -haired ... director, actress, teacher. Weddings, anniversaries, celebrations, a history of calendar holidays. “February 23, March 8 ... Yes, in Russia every day is a holiday! It only seems that the coal region should live richly, in fact - everything is in longing. ” And when there is no red day in the calendar, there is a shopping center.

In the 90s, parents did not let the light go to Moscow, to the theatrical one: "They will still kill, steal, eat." She remained in Kuzbass: she worked in the houses of creativity, a recreation center from a teacher to a Khudruk. Then a zigzag made her career, Sveta became the chief specialist of the culture department of the Kemerovo municipal district, where she began to engage in holidays on an almost urban scale. A difficult thing is in working order to give a smile to the massive resident of the basin, in which relict forests are cut down, it falls asleep, then something burns, otherwise it simply covers with hopelessness. But Svetlana kept for some time.

Svetlana photo: Vladimir Averin for TD

Her own fire happened a few years before the “winter cherry” flared up in Kemerovo. The head hurts, vision falls. Brain tumor. "Well, you are for two more months ..."

“I refused to be treated-I was afraid, did not want to turn into a vegetable ... And then the neurosurgeon talked to me humanly, and I agreed. After the operation from the cardiocenter, she was in a hurry to be “to the will” rather, so I wanted to work again-already differently ... But everyone kept me, reinsured. And I said: “Either you write me out today, or I will work here myself”. ”

The light was discharged. Two years later, she came to work.

Why saved me

The neurosurgeon recognized her right away: it was a difficult case, and indeed the light of Burago was difficult to forget - even a bald, weak, who at the age of 37 learned to read, write, hold a spoon again.

“After the illness, I quit the administration, left my husband, overestimated many things in my life.”

When the memory has not yet really returned (returned with shocks, like the ebb of blood to the heart), Sveta fell into a peak: she went to the people. In order not to a firm holiday, but everything for real, real life. I got a job as a journalist in the Kuznetsk Pensioner.

Svetlana photo: Vladimir Averin for TD

“I met with wonderful people, I was wildly interesting to their life. I began to think. That is why, for example, this veteran cannot without his dovecote? Or why, say, officials want them to write letters only 12 font and with fields of two and a half centimeters? I saw some specified scenarios with my directorial instinct both there and there. She perceived people as heroes and felt that a new play began in my life. I realized that it doesn’t matter where you got and what are the rules of the game. The main thing is the result of the entire action. Its meaning. For what all. The vacancies of charitable foundations began to google - and the only place in the BF “Children's Heart” at the Kemerovo cardiocenter turned out to be the only one.

So I understood why they saved me. ”

Talk humanly

Burago was saved in 2012 so that in 2016 she came to the head physician of the cardiocenter and said: “We have a problem: the children are over! We have no more children who need help! There are only 25 people in the cardio, and nothing more! Nobody! No need!"

Unheard of. It would seem - sit and rejoice. But this is light:

“According to statistics, 250 children with congenital heart defects per year are born in the region - only about 100 reaches the cardiocenter. And I thought: where are the others?!”

The rest were in the territories. In the cities and weights of the Kuzbass coal basin. In the intermarry basin there is more than Switzerland, halfway between the east of Russia and its West, scattered around the combustible Kemerovo region, which were still amazed at the phenomenon of the “fire -breathing mountain”, an underground fire. And Sveta Burago decided to get them out of there, not even suspecting about overhanging danger. Identify. Diagnose. Bring to the center. And save.

“At first we needed a portable ultrasound for a trial exit in the territory. Play, so to speak, a program. I already had a team: I, a factory of ultrasound Igor Lozhkin, children's cardiologist Tatyana Shikanova, who agreed to travel on the territory on Saturdays, and a driver, the owner of the taxi park, who himself sat behind the lamb: “Such a thing, I will not trust anyone!” ”

Svetlana photo: Vladimir Averin for TD

At the breakfast of business women of the city of Kemerovo (in front of Svetlana Burago, which will become a “Kemerovo of the Year” for another year, bypassing the concierge-flower industry at this competition, the head of the Club of a Healthy Eating, a Housewife, an inspector for minors and many other worthy candidates, even then all the doors opened, and most importantly, of course, not the title, but, like Sveta smiled, looked at. She said in the eye: “There are children !!!”) Burago agreed to rent an ultrasound machine at a price of 2.5 million rubles and the size of a laptop (and then collected another million on the purchase of such a project on the boomstarter). I called the territory and repeated a hundred times: “No, for free. No, nothing is needed. Yes, let's see everyone. Please, you just collect children! "

I arrived with the team in Leninsk-Kuznetskiy and examined 30 “suspicious” clinical children in one long Saturday, and half revealed congenital heart defect. I sent them to the cardiocenter. Many times I talked humanly with my parents: “No, ultrasound is not dangerous. No, they will be treated for free. Yes, we will help with transport. Yes, everything will be fine. " I returned to this point three months later: one and a half months of Nastya from the first “set”, which was not only sent to Kemerovo, but also paid for the operation to install an occluder , again brought at the exit reception:

“It was already a cheerful child with pink cheeks who began to eat, smile and did not cry anymore in pain, the source of which could not even indicate.”

The territory stood in line. They called their nurses “from the post of observation” - at first they assigned them “to help” Dr. Lozhkin, you never know. Lozhkin, entangled in a wire from an ultrasound, like a machine gun belt, caused the admiration of the kids: “Look what cartoons I will show you,” he began to drive a naked and seemingly completely ordinary breast. - Here, this is an open oval window, this is OK ... Yeah, and then there is a suspicion of a defect in the interventricular partition ... Here, look, what are the shadows uneven, but this is a dolphin! No, bird! Svetlana Aleksandrovna, I will not help me count the valves sash, please. ”

Tatyana Shikarova, a pediatrician in the second specialty, at the same time conducted a full examination, from ears to heels. A large trip to Kuzbass became called a “heart route”, which in 2017 even won the presidential grant, and the beds of the children's department began to fill up in the Kemerovo cardiocenter: 284 children with various traffic police were taken out of the territories for three years of work. From cities, towns, clinics and sanitary points for two cabinets.

"Winter Cherry", the last episode

“Light, why do you call them territories? Not areas, not corners ... "

Sveta does not know. So used to call. Google: "Territory is the land space of the municipal unit." Sveta is silently silent. And I continue the figurative row. Earth, soil, folk wealth, which bears on its surface, like a fire -breathing whale, children, their tired parents, crazy doctors and strange former directors, preschoolers and newborn, a whole living world, which is simply displaying in the order of numbers on state forms of any Russian territories. Well, what are children? Especially sick? Or their parents? They will probably go to the shopping center badly-nothing ... And therefore-let it remain as it is. And there is this: in the depths of Russia, in towns and town, often there are no children's cardiologists. There are no ultrasounds. There are no ultrasound devices. And even computers. There is paper and a pen (and eternal scribble). There is a tonometer and a phonondoscope. Russian land. Reserve territories absorbing their children. The automated world of reproduction of nonsense and heartlessness, into which such Svetlana sometimes burst. And they say: "This is not necessary further."

- You have there, probably, a boom in charity after the “winter cherry”, light?

- Here we have all the relevant funds remained without support after the “winter cherry”. This is an instinct when something burns: to flee, save, act, help. People are ready to throw on personal cards without understanding the situation. I myself have encountered how many scammers in those first days! How many - from her directorial experience - calculated right in her voice. Remember the boy, whom dad threw out of the window, and he died: his aunt actively offered me to transfer decent amounts to ointments that cost a penny, despite the fact that the Minister of Health herself took control of this boy! And when the first shock passed, people considered their mission executed. Everything, checkmark, is waiting for the next trouble. And we lost even those who had helped us before.

Svetlana photo: Vladimir Averin for TD

To pay off from trouble, buy indulgence for the next “winter cherry”, in this mode you will not live every day ... And the heart should beat every day. So, the light needs to work. To work the "heart route". The Red Strelka, originating at the official entrance of the cardiocenter - and scattering around the territories. On taiga forests, broken roads, lands, inside of which are coal and fire. 12 Saturdays per year. In the fall and spring: in the summer - all on vacation, in winter - in impassable snowdrifts. About half a thousand children examined for the "season". Dozens of hearts that will live.

Svetina work now - children with metal (and so far without) in the heart. And adults thawing from the inside: in mining helmets and white robes, after their shifts, shifts, survival planks, hopelessness. All of them are waiting for the light with her holiday. Rays of light ...

The project “City Route” of the Kemerovo Children's Heart Foundation helps to identify heart defects in children at an early stage: the sooner the child received medical care, the more there will be a chance of a full life. Please subscribe to a monthly donation! We will have a responsive heart, there will be a healthy heart in children in the territories of Russia.