Siemens together with NW Advisors donated Gagarinsky hospital the computer tomograph

2020: Receiving in a gift of the computer Somatom go tomograph

On August 5, 2020 "Siemens" together with NW Advisors non-paid transferred computer SOMATOM go.Up tomograph productions Siemens of Healthineers company To Gagarinsky central district hospital of the Smolensk region]. Computer the tomograph (KT) is necessary for urgentny and planned diagnostics of residents of Gagarinsky district Smolensk region with the population over 45 thousand people. KT-diagnostics is especially relevant, in the period of a pandemic, for identification and assessment of extent of damage of lungs at patients with COVID-19 and trackings of a disease in dynamics. All companies of the Siemens group took part in the charitable project: Siemens Healthineers, Power Siemens, Siemens Mobility and Siemens Finance.

The SOMATOM go.Up KT-scanners answer problems of diagnostics for regions with the high level of infection of COVID-19 where operational input of the computer tomograph in operation is necessary. Mobile workflow from the tablet allows rentgenlaborant to support a distance not less than 1.5 m from potentially infected patients and even completely to transfer process to remote control from operator, thereby minimizing risk of infection of medical personnel.

It considerably will improve access for residents of Gagarinsky district to the Smolensk region to hi-tech medical care, – he emphasized.

Both in the medical plan, and in social, COVID-19 became a call which we had not to face in peace times yet. Responsible approach to business and support of our employees, partners and customers is of particular importance, Alexander Liberov, the President of Siemens in Russia commented.

We installed the computer tomograph in a short time as soon as possible to include it in process of diagnostics and treatment of COVID-19, – Svetlana Gerbel, the CEO of Siemens Healthineers company in Russia and Central Asia commented.