Center for Nuclear Medicine Ulan-Ude

2022: Opening a nuclear medicine center for 1.3 billion rubles

On October 21, 2022, the opening ceremony of the Center for Nuclear Medicine took place in Ulan-Ude. His patients will receive early diagnosis of cancer.

The total cost of the medical institution amounted to almost 1.3 billion rubles: 400 million rubles were sent from the federal budget (funds of a single Far Eastern subsidy), the rest - by the concessionaire of Ulan-Ude Nuclear Medicine Center LLC.

Center for Nuclear Medicine

Cyclotron (production of radiopharmaceuticals) and positron emission tomographs will operate on the basis of the center. The equipment will allow in the early stages to diagnose oncological and also cardiological diseases and assess the effectiveness of treatment.

Every year, 10 thousand people will be able to undergo an examination at the PEK/CT center, patients from Buryatia will be examined at the center free of charge under the compulsory medical insurance policy and a referral from an oncologist, said Kirill Arkhipov, executive director of the center.

It is noted that the creation of the center took into account the experience of Russian and foreign centers of nuclear medicine. The requirements of Russian legislation and the IAEA for nuclear facilities have been met.

The center is equipped with high-tech equipment: a charged particle accelerator - a cyclotron, a quality control laboratory and automatic modules for the synthesis of radiopharmaceutical drugs, two PET/CT scanners. The equipment will be used not only for the provision of diagnostic medical care, but also for the production of radiopharmaceutical drugs according to world standards.

The creation and opening of the Center for Nuclear Medicine is a big step in the fight against oncology. Today's event is the beginning of big changes in the fight against this terrible disease in Buryatia. We are ready to provide services to our neighbors not only from other regions, but also from other countries. We will share experience, share technology and work together, - said the head of Buryatia Alexei Tsydenov.[1]

2021: Centre completed

In December 2021, the Sinatom company (part of the Sinar group of Dmitry Pumpyansky) announced the completion of the construction of the Center for Nuclear Medicine in Ulan-Ude. Every year in this institution it is planned to carry out more than 5.5 thousand procedures for the diagnosis of oncological, neurological and cardiovascular diseases using computed tomography, a proton cyclotron and a positron emission tomograph, and the production of radiopharmaceuticals will be established.

For the operation of complexes with the content of radioactive substances, a nuclear installation and a radiation source will be built.

A nuclear medicine center was built in Buryatia for 1.38 billion rubles

Sinatom reports that they are one of the few construction companies in that Russia have received a license to Rostekhnadzor build a nuclear installation and a radiation source at facilities that include complexes that contain radioactive substances.

The project to create a center for nuclear medicine is being implemented under the terms of public-private partnership. About 1.38 billion rubles are invested in the construction of the center.

By February 2021, more than 16.6 thousand patients with cancer were registered with the Republican Oncological Dispensary in Buryatia, more than 3 thousand cases of cancer are registered in the region annually - in 16.5% of cases, the disease is registered at an advanced stage. At the same time, the medical centers closest to the republic, which have the necessary technologies for early diagnosis, are located in Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk.

Thanks to the launch of the Center for Nuclear Medicine Ulan-Ude, the indicators of the detection of malignant neoplasms in the early stages by 2023 should increase to 55.5%. Services in a medical facility for residents of Buryatia will be free, under the compulsory medical insurance program. The direction "Nuclear Medicine" is included in the program to combat cancer under the national project "Healthcare."^[2]

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