Contributing to health care

In early 2020, local authorities assigned 17 million rubles for сapital repairs and refurbishment of the hospital in the framework of the regional program for health care development in Voronezh oblast. The conditions in this medical facility used to be insufficient for the 16.000 inhabitants of the district, but now the upgraded and renovated facility admits a capacity of over 250 patients a day.

‘Besides the local authorities, EkoNiva and the German-Russian Business Association have responded to our request’, says Mikhail Gordiyenko, Head of Vorobyovka district council ‘It is not the first time EkoNiva has given us a helping hand – last year the company equipped the dentist’s office. Now, the agricultural holding and the Business Association presented us with the required equipment worth of 1.5 million rubles for diagnosing people who suffer from diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. We are sure this will allow for preventive treatment and contribute to the health of our citizens.’

The German-Russian Business Association is an independent organization representing interests of medium-sized businesses in all Russian and German industries. The Association promotes reinforcement of the positive image of German enterprises operating in Russia and cooperating with Russian companies. These connections facilitate establishing long-term relations between the two countries.

‘We are on good terms with the Voronezh authorities and businesspeople’, says Thomas Overbeck, President of the German-Russian Business Association. ‘We have been there twice with German delegations and have held receptions in Hamburg for the members of the regional administration several times. The project of support to Vorobyovka district hospital has become the first experience of this kind for us. In the future, we are ready to provide backing for similar acts of charity together with German business representatives.’

A new Holter monitor has also entered service in the general practitioner’s office. This device is intended for uninterrupted cardiac monitoring for one day or a more extended period thus exposing potentially dangerous conditions and detecting pathologies at the earliest stages of their development.

‘Year by year, our laboratory equipment gets outdated’, comments Nikolay Tatsenko, Head of the Outpatient Clinic of Vorobyovka district hospital. ‘That is why we needed new biochemical express analyzers for estimating glycated hemoglobin, glucose and lactate. The new devices are highly accurate and their performance is up to 180 samples per hour. From now on our lab will be able to work much faster.’

The laboratory has also been equipped with an automatic hematology analyzer which is designed for measuring the concentration of sodium, potassium, calcium ions in serum, plasma and whole blood. The appliance comes with maintenance-free electrodes, which means no servicing is required throughout their entire lifespan.

‘Today, the engineers are going to install all the equipment and tomorrow our doctors will get down to working with the new equipment’, concludes Mikhail Gordiyenko. ‘Words can’t say how grateful we are to EkoNiva and the German-Russian Economic Union for their generous contribution to the development of our regional medicine.’