St. Petersburg Medical Institute will build PET centers in Siberia for 2 billion rubles

On November 29, 2016, it became known about the construction of a positive emission tomography (PET) center in Tomsk. The corresponding agreement was signed by the Governor of the Tomsk Region Sergei Zhvachkin and Arkady Stolpner, chief physician of MIBS (Sergei Berezin Medical Institute, St. Petersburg), which intends to invest about 500 million rubles in the project.

Tomsk PET Center will be used to diagnose and treat cancer and other diseases. According to Sergei Zhvachkin, patients will be able to be treated in this center for free - according to the compulsory medical insurance policy.

St. Petersburg Medical Institute will build PET centers in Siberia for 2 billion rubles

At the first stage, about 30 specialists will work in the center, and in the future this number will increase to 80. It is planned to serve about 2 thousand people a year, which should "dramatically improve the oncological and diagnostic service in the region," said Stolpner, adding that the throughput of the center, if necessary, can be increased to 4 thousand people a year.

A PET center for the treatment of cancer will open in Tomsk in 2018. By this period, MIBS plans to open three more similar centers in Siberia, including in Novosibirsk, Kemerovo and Barnaul. The total investment is estimated at 2 billion rubles.

A "mother center" will be located in Novosibirsk, from where radiopharmaceuticals will be supplied for centers in other cities of Siberia. All centers will provide the main service - a diagnostic procedure on a positron emission tomograph combined with a computed tomograph.

In total, PET centers in Siberia will be able to receive up to 20 thousand patients a year. MIBS does not name co-investors in this project.

MIBS is going to create its own network of 12 PET centers in Russia, investing about 5 billion rubles in it. The centers will be located in the cities of the Siberian, Central and Southern federal districts.^[1]

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