OMSK, October 1 – Novosti. Governor of the Omsk Region Alexander Burkov opened the first in the region center for positron emission tomography, created jointly with the MedInvestGroup group of companies, the regional government reports on Saturday.
“The largest federal network of medical centers for high-precision radionuclide diagnostics of oncological diseases has appeared in the Omsk Region. The Positron Emission Tomography Center is equipped with the latest world-class equipment. This will bring the Omsk Region to a new level of cancer diagnosis and will allow thousands of patients to diagnose pathology in time, make the correct diagnosis, to monitor the effectiveness of the treatment,” the report says.
The capacity of the center is from 5 thousand studies per year. The vast majority of procedures in PET-Technology centers are carried out within the framework of the compulsory medical insurance system.
“We really brought diagnostic centers closer to the population, this is the latest generation of diagnostic equipment, and it allows you to do the most in-depth research in the field of oncology without leaving the city. Many people believe that it is impossible to defeat oncology. No, perhaps for this Today we have implemented a joint project with the company “MedInvestGroup”, – said the head of the Omsk region.
Burkov noted that about 2 thousand people annually were forced to travel from the Omsk region to other cities to do such research. Now it is possible to do it in Omsk .
“Today, the population of the Omsk region can safely receive the most high-tech type of medical care in terms of diagnostics in the field of oncology, which is only known in the world – there is nothing higher. This means that residents of the region no longer need to travel to Moscow , St. Petersburg and others large cities. This means that we simply save more people,” said Sergey Notov, president of the MedInvestGroup company, in turn.
Governor Burkov noted that in the future, joint plans with the company, there are projects aimed at reconstructing the oncology center, expanding the polyclinic and developing the bed fund specifically for radiological treatment. “We can’t stop there – we must continue to equip our cancer center, the nuclear medicine center with modern equipment, and, most importantly, train specialists. Even for this center, we had to retrain people, because we did not have such a level of training in nuclear medicine . Here, our Omsk Medical Academy, of course, is included in the process,” he said.
