A charity agreement for the purchase of an angiographic X-ray unit was signed by Nikolay Gorban, General Director of Caspian Pipeline Consortium, and Astrakhan Oblast Governor Aleksandr Zhilkinin in Astrakhan on 15 March 2018. Under this charity agreement brand-new equipment of about RUR 45 million will be supplied to the Aleksandro-Mariinsky Regional Clinical Hospital.
The Aleksandro-Mariinsky Regional Clinical Hospital that is one of the major multi-field healthcare centers in the region provides specialist care to patients with acute cardiovascular diseases. The Hospital has the only vascular surgery department in the region.
The new angiographic unit will not only be used to perform urgent stent angioplasty, but will also enable coronary angiography for early coronary artery risk detection, life-saving endovascular micro-embolization, a number of urgent surgeries or help to provide care where it may be needed.
It should be noted that the Aleksandro-Mariinsky Regional Clinical Hospital has excellent potential for further development of X-ray services and surgery: there is technical staff to ensure the 24/7 operation of the angiographic unit, a process for inpatient admission for planned angiography, necessary space for the installation of the angiographic unit. Specialists emphasize that this equipment will allow them to fight cardiovascular diseases and mortality rates and develop high-tech specialist care in the region.
The delivery of the angiographic unit is expected in June this year.
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CPC pipeline system is one of the largest investment projects in the energy industry with participation of foreign capital on the CIS territory. The length of the pipeline connecting the oil fields in Western Kazakhstan with the Marine Terminal near Novorossiysk is 1,511 km. CPC Marine Terminal is equipped with single point moorings which allow for safe tanker lifting at a considerable distance from the shore, also when the weather conditions are unfavorable.
CPC Shareholders: Russian Federation (represented by Transneft – 24% and CPC Company – 7 %) – 31%; Republic of Kazakhstan (represented by KazMunayGaz – 19% and Kazakhstan Pipeline Ventures LLC – 1.75%) – 20.75%; Chevron Caspian Pipeline Consortium Company - 15%, LUKARCO B.V. – 12.5%, Mobil Caspian Pipeline Company – 7.5%, Rosneft-Shell Caspian Ventures Limited – 7.5%, BG Overseas Holding Limited - 2%, Eni International N.A. N.V. - 2% и Oryx Caspian Pipeline LLC – 1.75%.