New Far East medical center may expect equipment from Rusnano or Japanese

Rusnano, Russia’s nanotech giant, is ready to join as a co-investor whatever private-public partnership (PPP) may form to equip the new high tech medical center to soon open at Vladivostok-based Far East Federal University (FEFU), the first such center in the Primorsky region in Russia’s Far East, news agency RIA Novosti  reports  citing Vladimir Miklushevsky, the Governor of Primorsky. 

Governor Miklushevsky said “our Japanese colleagues have also expressed interest” in equipping the center that is nearing completion on the Island of Russky just outside Vladivostok. He did not specify what colleagues he was talking about. 

“Primorsky’s healthcare institutions have had a lot of new equipment purchased and modernized over the past two years. There are few equipping problems left; even local physicians confirm that. What still persists is the problem of supplying regional clinics and hospitals with a cadre of skilled staff. To enhance the prestige of the medical professions we are raising salaries in the sector,” Mr. Miklushevsky said. 

He added that by 2018, a local physician will have the average salary of $3,460, double the average salary across Primorsky’s economic sectors.

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