Krasnodar Doctor's African Aid Mission: Sleeping Under Spider Nets

Anastasia Kalita, a neonatologist from Krasnodar, participated in a humanitarian medical mission to Sierra Leone in late 2025, helping over 700 patients while facing challenges like large spiders.

Mar 1, 2026

Anastasia Kalita works as a neonatologist at Regional Clinical Hospital No. 2 in Krasnodar in the neonatal intensive care unit. At the age of 25, she joined the humanitarian medical mission of Ekaterina Glock — a world-renowned midwife.

The video features a neonatologist from Krasnodar describing her three-week medical aid work in Sierra Leone, including sleeping under nets to avoid spiders.

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The Krasnodar resident spent three weeks at the end of 2025 in West Africa, in Sierra Leone, home to about 8 million people. According to the UN Human Development Index in 2025, Sierra Leone ranks 185th out of 193 countries.

In total, the mission consisted of 13 specialists, including a surgeon, oncologist, dentist, and gynecologist. During the trip, the doctors provided care to 716 patients.

«We visited 4 cities, 1 island, and several villages. As for the wildlife, there were huge spiders that frightened us, but in the hotels we slept under special nets to keep anything from getting to us at night,» Anastasia Kalita shared with 93.RU.

For more on how the trip unfolded, the doctor tells her story in the video above.