To provide medical assistance to workers and employees of the plant, on March 1, 1947, by decision No. 8 of the Stalin District Executive Committee of Minsk, a medical-sanitary unit (MSCh MTZ) with a 40-bed hospital was organized. Its structure included a polyclinic serving 2 workshop sections, a 30-bed hospital, and a 10-bed maternity ward. The medical unit staff consisted of 17 doctors, 14 mid-level medical workers, totaling 69 positions.
In the history of the development of the 6th City Clinical Hospital, three main periods can be distinguished:
- Provision of preventive and therapeutic-diagnostic inpatient care to plant workers and the population during the operation of the Medical-Sanitary Unit of the Minsk Tractor Plant (March 1, 1947 – December 3, 1964 – 17 years 8 months).
- Organization of preventive and therapeutic-diagnostic inpatient care during the formation and existence of the 6th City United Hospital (December 3, 1964 – October 2, 1969 – 4 years 10 months);
- Operation as the «6th City Clinical Hospital».
The entire period of operation of the MSCh MTZ hospital is characterized by a systematic increase in the volume of inpatient care; in 1960, the bed capacity was 250 beds. During the same period, the work of auxiliary departments was organized: radiological, physiotherapeutic, and therapeutic exercise. With the commissioning of the building at 5 Ural Street (December 30, 1964), the number of beds reached 500, including:
- 130 – therapeutic;
- 60 – surgical;
- 60 – traumatological;
- 80 – pediatric;
- 50 – neurological;
- 60 - ENT;
- 60 – gynecological.
By Decision of Minsk City Executive Committee No. 328 dated December 3, 1964, the medical-sanitary unit of the Minsk Tractor Plant was reorganized and renamed the «6th City United Hospital». From that time, the second development period began. The hospital, in addition to the 500-bed hospital until 1973, included: the MTZ medical unit (9 adult, 9 children's, 25 polyclinics), 14 children's, 14 adult polyclinics, polyclinics of the Minsk Automatic Lines Plant, Minsk Motor Plant, Minsk Spare Parts Plant.
During the second development period, the bed capacity increased by 225 beds and reached 725 due to the commissioning of a 125-bed obstetric building and densification of existing areas. The hospital served not only workers of industrial enterprises but also residents of the Pervomaisky, Zavodskoy districts and other city districts. Medical care was provided in 17 specialties.
On October 2, 1969, by Order No. 64 of the Minsk City Health Department, the «6th City United Hospital was reorganized and renamed the «6th City Clinical Hospital».
In the third period to the present, the expansion of the hospital's capacity and improvement of diagnostics and treatment continue.
In 1976, a 300-bed therapeutic building was commissioned, which significantly changed the structure of the bed fund; the therapeutic, trauma-orthopedic, and obstetric-gynecological services received further specialization and continue to operate to this day.
In 1980, a standard food block and an underground passage between all hospital buildings were built. In 1993, a 130-bed obstetric building and an administrative building were commissioned.
With the opening of the 6th GKB, departments of the medical institute (now medical university) operated at the hospital: therapeutic exercise and medical control, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, propaedeutics of internal diseases, traumatology, orthopedics and military field surgery. This significantly intensified work on inventions and rationalization proposals. The greatest contribution in this regard was made by the Department of Traumatology and Orthopedics.
From 1984, dissertations for the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences were prepared and defended by Beletsky A.V., Serdyuchenko N.S., Makarevich E.R., Voloshenyuk A.N., Gurko V.N., Korn M.N., Klimovich O.V., Vrublevsky V.A., Zhikhar N.A., Tretyak S.I., Nikitin D.A., Danilenko O.A., Pisarenko E.A., Sarzhevskaya E.A., Volkov V.F.; later Serdyuchenko N.S., Makarevich E.R., Sivets N.F. defended doctoral dissertations; the head of the 2nd Trauma-Orthopedic Department Pashuk P.P. registered 5 inventions and 7 patent developments.
On October 14, 2003, based on Decision No. 1753 of the Minsk City Executive Committee, the City Clinical Center of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Psychiatric, Gynecological, and Therapeutic buildings were put into operation after reconstruction.
During the hospital's operation, 245,000 newborns were born in the maternity department, and on January 24, 1972, the one-millionth resident of Minsk was born in the department. It was the firstborn of the family of young workers of the Krupskaya Sewing Association Zoya Fedorovna Kudina and Valentin Vladimirovich Basko. The parents named their firstborn Oleg.
The one-and-a-half-millionth resident of Minsk was also born in the hospital's maternity department on April 5, 1985 – Dmitry, son of tractor plant workers Alexander and Tamara Borisik. During the registration of the one-and-a-half-millionth resident of Minsk, 13-year-old Minsk resident Oleg Basko, a 6th-grade student of school No. 54, was present.
Over 107,000 residents of Minsk, regions of the country, and capital guests receive this care annually at the «6th City Clinical Hospital» Healthcare Institution, including about 39,000 highly qualified inpatient care, about 19,000 consultative care. 54% (about 48,000) of the over 89,000 people who applied to the admission department undergo almost complete medical examination within 1.5-2 hours with the issuance of recommendations, medical prescriptions, and referral to the polyclinic. The «Healthcare Institution «6th City Clinical Hospital» is constantly developing, improving diagnostic and treatment methods, and implementing the most modern examination, diagnostic, and treatment techniques into practice. The clinic houses: the Republican Hand Surgery Center, City Traumatology Center, City Osteomyelitis Center, City Transfusiology Center (for which a new building equipped with the most modern equipment was built and commissioned on November 1, 2022), the Partizansky District Endoscopic Center, and on the basis of the clinical-diagnostic laboratory - a shared-use center for the attached outpatient-polyclinic unit.
At the maternity hospital of the clinic, a unique Mother and Child Department operates with a modern delivery room and apartment-type wards designed as spacious apartments for maximum comfort of the patient and her relatives.
Daily, 932 medical workers and other clinic staff take their workplaces to provide qualified medical care: about 350 patients visit the clinic's admission departments and consultation rooms, over 8,000 examinations are performed: X-ray diagnostic, functional, clinical-diagnostic using highest-precision equipment; operating rooms work at maximum capacity, performing about 100 operations per day, including high-tech ones: knee, shoulder, hand joint replacements, alloplasty, autoplasty of bones, gynecological plastic surgery using implants, hiatal hernia surgeries, reconstructive surgeries on extrahepatic bile ducts, endoscopic surgeries to restore tracheobronchial tree patency, laser vaporization of papillomas, recanalization of strictures; on average about 15 babies are born.
Emphasis is placed on organ-preserving, organ-restoring medicine, and surgical interventions performed using minimally invasive methods - everything that will not only save the patient but also improve quality of life and minimize the risk of disease recurrence.
Among the most important advantages of the clinic are not only its bed capacity but also its multidisciplinary nature: traumatology, orthopedics, cardiology, pulmonology, rheumatology, gastroenterology, gynecology, surgery profiles, osteomyelitis department, maternity hospital.
Direct «bedside» training is conducted by teachers from the departments of the medical university and Minsk Medical College.
The clinical hospital houses 9 departments, including 1 department of BelMAPO and 8 departments of BSMU:
- traumatology and orthopedics;
- anesthesiology and resuscitation;
- obstetrics and gynecology;
- propaedeutics of internal diseases;
- department of cardiology and internal diseases;
- medical rehabilitation and physiotherapy;
- 2nd department of childhood diseases;
- military field surgery.
