During his working trip to Tver, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Tver regional perinatal clinical centre named after Yekaterina Bakunina which opened in March 2010. The prime minister toured various units at the centre, including the neonatal pathology department.

On August 2, an in-patient department opened at the centre. Putin saw its first patient, two-week-old Masha Ivanova, who was born on August 3. A premature baby, she now weighs about 2.5 kg. She was fast asleep throughout the government delegation's visit.

The Prime Minister familiarised himself with the work carried out by clinical centre and its surgical wing, and dropped in on its childrens' intensive care unit. Mr Putin chatted with young mothers in the postnatal department, gave them flowers and asked them what they thought about how the perinatal centre was working, and how it was equipped.

The centre is designed for up to 3,000 deliveries a year and is kitted out with modern equipment, including specially developed blood reinfusion devices. Thanks to this device, a patient's blood loss is replenished using her own blood, rather than a donor's. Tatiana Gurskaya, the centre's medical director who previously worked at the Moscow (Sechenov) Medical Academy, told Putin that equipment like that at the Tver perinatal clinical centre is not to be found at any of Moscow's medical institutions, not even the Medical Academy.