On 7 February 2019, Mikhail Grishankov, CPC Deputy General Director, Russian Government Relations, Igor Babushkin, Deputy Envoy of the Russian President in the Northern Caucasus Federal Territory, Mikhail Murashko, Head of the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare, Vladimir Vladimirov, Stavropol Region Governor, and Victor Mazharov, Stavropol Region Health Care Minister, attended a formal ceremony to deliver 18 ambulances to health care institutions in the Stavropol Region.
Caspian Pipeline Consortium allocated over RUR 48 million to fund the purchase of the special-purpose vehicles. The ambulances were received by six regional heath care institutions: Apanasenovsky District Hospital named after N.I. Palchikov, Ipatovsky District Hospital, Novoalexandrovsky District Hospital, Trunovsky District Hospital, Turkmensky District Hospital, and the Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital.
All the vehicles are Class B, i.e. they provide a capability for emergency medical aid to be rendered by a physician (paramedic) team to patients during their transportation and to monitor their condition while being driven to an inpatient medical institution. The ambulances are equipped with all necessary modern equipment: monitor defibrillators, 3-lead ECG, equipment for controlled ventilation and assisted respiration, pulse-oxygen machines, glucose express metering instruments and other instrumentation.
The same day CPC delivered medical equipment for a total cost of RUR 28.5 mln to a Regional Clinical Cardiological Dispensary. The cardiological dispensary received a RS80A-RUS ultrasonic diagnostic unit, a Philips IntelliVue Information Center iX (RIS iX) completed with MP2 IntelliVue patient monitors, a Medicom-Combi electrocardiogram (ECG) recording and daily arterial pressure monitoring system, and an Alton-Test electrocardiographic hardware/software system for exercise ECG testing.
The equipment delivered to the regional health care facilities will help significantly improve the accessibility, promptness and quality of medical services provided to local residents.
It should be noted that just in 2014-2018 CPC allocated over RUR 330 million to support the health care in the Stavropol Region. In early 2017, the Stavropol Region Government and Caspian Pipeline Consortium signed a new 5-year cooperation agreement, providing, inter alia, for joint efforts in the social sphere in the following areas: developing and improving the efficiency of the industrial and transport infrastructure in the Stavropol Region, supporting education, health care, physical education and sport, implementing ecology and culture programs and also providing targeted help to vulnerable social groups in the region.
Background:
CPC Pipeline System is one of the major investment projects in the energy sector with participation of foreign capital in the CIS. The length of the Tengiz–Novorossiysk Pipeline is 1,511 km; it transports over two thirds of all Kazakhstan export crude, as well as crude from Russian oil fields, including the Caspian Region. CPC Marine Terminal is equipped with three Single Point Moorings (SPM) that allow to load tankers safely at a significant distance offshore, also amid poor weather conditions.
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% and Oryx Caspian Pipeline LLC – 1.75%.