NEUROSURGERY, A SCIENCE IN ITS HIGHEST CHANGE

This article is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the establishment, on November 25, 1999, of the Department of Neurosurgery of the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy „Nicolae Testemitanu” (Republic of Moldova). During these two decades, neurosurgery was not only established as a field of indigenous medical research and practice, but it has also developed fruitfully, currently going through three development stages. The first stage refers to the establishing of Neurosurgery in our country. With the help of neurosurgeons Zahar Sosonkin, Abram Cuciuc, Mina Lia Bondareţ, in year 1953, there has been founded the Neurosurgery Section, as part of the Republican Clinical Hospital of Psychiatry, being located in Costiujeni and counting 40 beds. In 1960, there was created the Chair of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Medical Genetics of the State Institute of Medicine from Chisinau. The second stage is characterized by the separation of Neurology and Neurosurgery branch from the Clinical Psychiatric Hospital, after putting into service of the first hospital block (in year 1960) on 48 Lomonosov Street (currently Korolenko, 2, INN) from Chisinau. In 1963, we can observe the definitive „separation” and the establishment of the Neurosurgery subsidiary of the Republican Clinical Hospital. The third stage starts in year 1999, together with the creation of the Department of Neurosurgery within the ”Nicolae Testemitanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, a fact that remarkably boosted the field: in 2005, the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery (INN) has been established. During these 20 years of activity, with the contribution of the Neurosurgery Department, there has been implemented a variety of new treatment methods and procedures. In 2001, there has been founded the Association of Neurosurgeons of the Republic of Moldova (ANM), member of (EANS) and WFNS). In year 2000, the second clinical base of the Neurosurgery Department of the Institute of Scientific Research in the Field of Protection of Mother and Child Health has been created; in 2014 – the third clinical base of the Department within the Republican Clinical Hospital. The Department has already trained 7 generations of neurosurgical residents who are currently working in local clinics and abroad. Over the last few years, in Chisinau, more than 20 international scientific forums have been successfully organized