(AGENPARL) - Roma, 1 Giugno 2023(AGENPARL) – MOSCOW gio 01 giugno 2023
Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Archpriest Alexander Tkachenko, Chairman of the Board of the Circle
of Kindness Foundation.
The Circle of Kindness Foundation for supporting children with serious
life-threating and chronic illnesses, including rare (orphan) diseases, was
established by Presidential Executive Order No.16.
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Father Alexander, the Circle of Kindness Foundation has been working since 2021. It has done a great deal to help children and families on the whole. You do a lot, as well as everyone
working with you. The St Petersburg Children’s Hospice has been functioning for a long time, even longer than the Foundation.
Archpriest Alexander Tkachenko: Today the hospice is marking its 20th
anniversary. You visited it on Christmas 2019, and your visit gave an important
boost to develop palliative care as a separate branch of medicine.
Federal legislation was adopted and funding sources identified. Now
palliative care is provided to people across the country.
If I may, I have brought postcards from the children at the hospice, who
remember your visit and, of course, invite you again.
Vladimir Putin: Thank you very much.
Alexander Tkachenko: It was a very touching visit. Do you remember
Artur, a boy who held out his hand to you and said: “High five”? He is alive,
thank God, and goes to school – we have organised teaching for him, – and he
sends his regards to you.
Vladimir Putin: My warmest greetings to Artur, and to all your
patients, too.
To be continued.
Fonte/Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/71268
