Nizhnevartovsk District Clinical Hospital

History

2024: Hospital Launch

In July 2024, a new district hospital in the city of Nizhnevartovsk was commissioned in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. The project cost amounted to 26.5 billion rubles, and construction lasted almost 17 years.

According to Medvestnik, the new medical institution is designed for 1,100 seats and has an area of ​ ​ more than 109 thousand square meters. It is planned that over 2.5 thousand medical specialists will work in the hospital.

source = Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Government

The construction history of this facility began in 2006 with the first documentation. However, the actual work on the construction of the hospital started only in 2012. During the implementation of the project, general contractors have repeatedly changed, and the deadlines for the delivery of the facility have been constantly postponed.

The construction process was accompanied by a number of scandals and criminal cases. In 2021, the former deputy of the Tyumen Regional Duma, Alexander Lobov, made accusations against Ugra officials, stating possible corruption and the lack of checks on the spending of budget funds by the Accounts Chamber.

Later, the director of the branch of the district capital construction department in Nizhnevartovsk, Alexander Makarikov, was detained. He was charged with taking a bribe in the amount of 35 million rubles. In 2022, a former Rostec employee Alexei Repkin was arrested on suspicion of receiving 15 million rubles for assistance in preserving contracts for the supply of medical equipment.

During the construction period, the project cost increased from the initial 4 billion to 26.5 billion rubles. In June 2024, the minister health care Russia Mikhail Murashko reported to the president Vladimir Putin about the 99 percent readiness of the facility, noting that the completion of construction is under his personal control.^[1]

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