Saratov Regional Clinical Oncological Dispensary

History

2025: The start of work, the volume of investments reached 6.5 billion rubles

In mid-March 2025, a new cancer center began work in Saratov, built on the former lands of the Research Institute of the South-East Research Institute. The facility worth ₽6,5 billion received permission to be commissioned in December 2024 and is already receiving the first patients.

The launch of the medical institution was announced by the Deputy Minister of Health of the Saratov Region Denis Greifer at a briefing on March 6, 2025. The official representative of the department noted that the oncological dispensary has not yet reached its planned capacity, there is a redistribution of patients and optimization of medical services.

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The construction of the cancer center began several years ago, initially its opening was planned for 2022, then the dates were postponed to 2023. However, the facility received final permission for commissioning only in December 2024.

Denis Greifer also commented on the situation with the complaints of the medical staff of the new cancer center. In early January 2025, employees of the institution sent letters to the governor and head of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, informing about the conflict with the new chief physician, which led to the dismissal of a number of specialists. The regional Ministry of Health conducted an audit, which, according to the deputy minister, did not reveal significant violations in the work of the institution.

After clarifying questions from journalists, Denis Greifer admitted that six doctors really left the oncology dispensary, but new specialists were taken in their places. The representative of the department claims that the balance in the number of dismissed and accepted medical workers is in a positive zone.^[1]

2024: Completion of construction

On November 9, 2024, it became known that the construction of a new cancer center on Shekhurdina Street in Saratov was completed. The facility was erected at the expense of the federal budget, the cost of construction amounted to ₽6,3 billion.

According to Moskovsky Komsomolets in Saratov, construction work has been carried out since April 2020 by Romex-Kuban LLC. The medical complex is 1-7-story buildings equipped with elevators and connected by covered passages with recreation areas for patients.

The medical institution includes high-tech operating rooms, modern laboratories, comfortable wards and a hotel for patients from remote areas. The center is designed for 200 inpatient beds, 20 day stays and 12 resuscitation and intensive care beds. The polyclinic department will be able to receive up to 300 visitors per shift.

The Minister of Health of the Saratov Region said that the postponement of the launch of the center to 2024 is associated with a change in the supply chains of imported high-tech equipment.

To ensure the transport accessibility of the new medical institution, bus route No. 78 was launched, connecting the Zavodskaya district through the city center with the cancer center and the infectious diseases hospital in Yelshanka. Also, the medical center can be reached on route No. 62.

According to the Ministry of Health of the Saratov Region, the region ranks 37th among the subjects of Russia and eighth in the Volga Federal District in terms of cancer. Over 64 thousand patients are registered at the dispensary, of which two thirds are women.

Statistics of the Ministry of Health of the region show that cancer in the region is dominated by malignant skin neoplasms. Breast cancer is in second place, lung cancer is in third place.^[2]

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