The overhaul program of primary health care institutions in Kazan starts this year

(KZN.RU, February 28, Mikhail Chentsov). The overhaul program of primary health care institutions in Kazan starts this year. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor, informed of the decision, taken by Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of Tatarstan, during the examination of the already renovated Children's City Clinical Hospital №7. As the Mayor noted, the Republican three-year program is designed for more than 7 billion rubles.

“The President has a great desire to overhaul the entire primary network of Kazan for three years. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of this program. For today, our hospitals, children’s, adults’, and republican medical centers are at the highest level but the primary network is slightly behind. Thanks to the President for this decision”, said I. Metshin.

The Children's City Clinical Hospital №7 is located in six separate buildings. The main one is at the street Aidarova, 2a. The facility has 3 specialized departments, catering to the children population not only in the Aviastroitelny district but the whole city. The stationary care is provided to children in the hospital in following fields: allergology, pulmonology, pediatrics.

Carrying out a phased repair of hospital buildings is underway since 2008. 167.6 million rubles have been allocated in this time for capital repairs and equipping of the hospital facilities, including 23 million rubles from the city budget and 144.6 million rubles from the budget of Tatarstan.

The Mayor of Kazan, accompanied by Adel’ Vafin, the Minister of Health of the RT, and Marat Galiullin, the head doctor of the hospital №7, inspected the renovated premises of the institution: the registry, laboratory and treatment room, allergy-center, ultrasound diagnostics office and physiotherapy department. “As a father, I have the feeling that the children will recover faster in these conditions. The atmosphere is like in a kindergarten. It's like any good family children's hotel. I hope that such conditions will appear in all health centers of the city over the next three years”, I. Metshin shared his impressions.

A. Vafin said that the modernization of health clinics is another step towards providing people with the quality health care. “The decision that was taken by the President, allows saying that we will be able to change the situation and increase the population satisfaction of the quality of medical care for a short period of time and that people would want to go to our institutions. Prevention is very important. Not only to come due to illness but to come in time to be vaccinated, to be examined. There is everything for this”, said the Minister of Health of the RT.

The need for modernization of primary health care institutions was discussed at the XIII session of the Kazan City Duma. “We have upgraded the largest medical centers, put in order, but the question of clinics remained open. I think, we will start the program this year”, said R. Minnikhanov at the session.

Damir Fattakhov, the first deputy head of the Executive Committee, Timur Alibaev, the head of the Aviastroitelny and Novo-Savinovsky districts administration, Ilnur Halfiev, the head of the Health Department of the RT Ministry of Health at Kazan, and others also took part in the inspection of the hospital.