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Putin to chair conference on federal high-tech medical centers.
MOSCOW, August 17 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is expected to make a one-day trip to the city of Tver, 170 kilometers to the northwest of Moscow, Tuesday and to visit a new regional perinatal medicine center there.
This medical facility carries the name of Yekaterina Bakunina /b.
1810, d. 1894/, one of the first sisters of charity in Russia and a
participant in the Crimean War.
In 1860 and 1861, she invested her own money in the construction of
the first free hospital in the Tver region.
The Russian government's press service said Putin is due to hold a
conference on the construction and commissioning of federal
high-technology medical centers and perinatal clinics.
Apart from a number of government officials who will attend the
conference personally, including Public Health and Social Development
Minister Tatiana Golikova, governors of the regions where perinatal and
high-tech medical centers are being built will take part in it by
teleconferencing.
Golikova and the Director General of Russia's State Corporation for
Technologies, Sergei Chemezov, are supposed to make reports.
Construction of high-tech medical centers is part and parcel of the
National Project 'Health', which pursues the goal of providing quality
medical aid to rank-and-file patients.
A decision was taken earlier to make emphasis on building such centers
in different parts of Russia so as to make high-tech medicine available to
the patients as close to the places of their permanent residence.
The project envisions construction of fourteen high-tech centers -
seven of them specializing in cardiac surgery, five in trauma treatment,
orthopedics and prosthetics, and two in neurosurgery.
In 2008 and 2009, high-tech medical centers were commissioned in the
cities of Penza, Cheboksary and Astrakhan. This brought about a sharp
increase in the numbers of patients who got access to top-notch medical
assistance - to 254,000 in 2009 from a mere 60,000 in 2005.
Russian government plans to fully meet the nation's demand for
high-tech medical assistance by 2015.
Standing next in line for the commissioning of advanced medical
centers is Chelyabinsk in the Urals, Tyumen and Krasnoyarsk in Siberia,
and Khabarovsk in the Far East. The centers will be opened there in 2010.
The plans for next year feature the cities of Perm, Smolensk, Barnaul,
Novosibirsk, Kaliningrad, and Vladivostok.
Regional perinatal centers are already functioning in Irkutsk, St
Petersburg and Kaliningrad. The fitting-out of one more new center is
nearing completion in Murmansk.
As for the perinatal clinic in Tver, the first baby was born there
August 3.
The measures have brought about a decrease of infant mortality to 8.2
cases per 1,000 newly born babies in 2009 from 11.0 cases in 2005.
At the moment, perinatal clinics are in the phase of construction in
sixteen cities.
Participants in the Tuesday conference plan reviewing the progress of
construction works and take the decisions necessary for timely
commissioning of all these public health facilities.
.Georgia finds alternative suppliers after Russia's ban on grain
exports.
TBILISI, August 17 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's decision to impose a
provisional ban on exports of wheat in the wake of a big shortfall of
harvest after an unprecedented drought the country witnessed this summer
will not create any major problems for Georgia that has fair reserves of
grain at the moment, Agriculture Minister Bakur Kvezereli said Monday.
"The ban on exports of wheat introduced by the Russian authorities may
become sensitive for the entire region including Georgia to some degree in
the future but as for today, we do have sufficient reserves and
alternative suppliers, like Kazakhstan, Ukraine, the U.S., and Canada,"
Kvezereli told reporters.
"Russia's decision will have a certain impact on market prices of
wheat in the region but there are no grounds for panicking, since no
growth of wheat prices is expected either in August or in September," he
said.
In recent years, Georgia has been producing only 15% of the grain it
needs and importing the other 85%, most of it from Russia and Kazakhstan.
"Grain of Russian origins totaled 60% to 65% in the Georgia's imports
in the past few months," an expert said.
.EMERCOM warns of first cold spells in Siberia.
KRASNOYARSK, August 17 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's Ministry for Emergency
Situations and Civil Defense /EMERCOM/ has issued a warning that cold
spells and ground frosts of about minus 2 degrees Celsius are expected on
a vast territory embracing the Novosibirsk, Tomsk and Kemerovo regions,
the Altai territory, and the Republic of Altai.
"In this connection, emergency situations of a municipal scale
affecting and/or destroying garden crops may develop in these regions,"
EMERCOM's Siberian regional center said.
Emergencies expects also warn of a possibility of "municipal-level
emergency situations caused by equipment failures at transformer
substations, housing and communal utilities, as well as automobile and air
transport."
.EMERCOM's jet with humanitarian aid lands in Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD, August 17 (Itar-Tass) - An Ilyushin-76 cargo jet, which the
Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense /EMERCOM/ uses
for delivering humanitarian aid worldwide, landed at Islamabad airport
Tuesday morning.
It brought to Pakistan, a country stricken by unprecedented floods, a
consignment of over 42 tons of prime necessities, including food rations,
blankets, tents, and matches.
Also, Russian rescuers have brought water purification filters and
first aid medicines to Pakistan. After unloading the cargoes will be
distributed to the areas that have been struck by the calamity especially
severely, a spokesman for Pakistan's Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass.
The floods of the scale that Pakistan has not seen throughout its
history have carried away the lives of over 1,600 people.
All in all, the calamity caused by amassed monsoon showers has
affected more than 20 million people.
The country's agricultural sector has suffered losses amounting to
about $ 2.9 billion and UN officials say a total of $ 460 million will be
needed for eliminating the aftermath of this calamity.
In the meantime, risks are mounting of outbreaks of various infections
in the flooded areas, as potable water is in a dramatically short supply
there.
-0-kle
This medical facility carries the name of Yekaterina Bakunina /b.
1810, d. 1894/, one of the first sisters of charity in Russia and a
participant in the Crimean War.
In 1860 and 1861, she invested her own money in the construction of
the first free hospital in the Tver region.
The Russian government's press service said Putin is due to hold a
conference on the construction and commissioning of federal
high-technology medical centers and perinatal clinics.
Apart from a number of government officials who will attend the
conference personally, including Public Health and Social Development
Minister Tatiana Golikova, governors of the regions where perinatal and
high-tech medical centers are being built will take part in it by
teleconferencing.
Golikova and the Director General of Russia's State Corporation for
Technologies, Sergei Chemezov, are supposed to make reports.
Construction of high-tech medical centers is part and parcel of the
National Project 'Health', which pursues the goal of providing quality
medical aid to rank-and-file patients.
A decision was taken earlier to make emphasis on building such centers
in different parts of Russia so as to make high-tech medicine available to
the patients as close to the places of their permanent residence.
The project envisions construction of fourteen high-tech centers -
seven of them specializing in cardiac surgery, five in trauma treatment,
orthopedics and prosthetics, and two in neurosurgery.
In 2008 and 2009, high-tech medical centers were commissioned in the
cities of Penza, Cheboksary and Astrakhan. This brought about a sharp
increase in the numbers of patients who got access to top-notch medical
assistance - to 254,000 in 2009 from a mere 60,000 in 2005.
Russian government plans to fully meet the nation's demand for
high-tech medical assistance by 2015.
Standing next in line for the commissioning of advanced medical
centers is Chelyabinsk in the Urals, Tyumen and Krasnoyarsk in Siberia,
and Khabarovsk in the Far East. The centers will be opened there in 2010.
The plans for next year feature the cities of Perm, Smolensk, Barnaul,
Novosibirsk, Kaliningrad, and Vladivostok.
Regional perinatal centers are already functioning in Irkutsk, St
Petersburg and Kaliningrad. The fitting-out of one more new center is
nearing completion in Murmansk.
As for the perinatal clinic in Tver, the first baby was born there
August 3.
The measures have brought about a decrease of infant mortality to 8.2
cases per 1,000 newly born babies in 2009 from 11.0 cases in 2005.
At the moment, perinatal clinics are in the phase of construction in
sixteen cities.
Participants in the Tuesday conference plan reviewing the progress of
construction works and take the decisions necessary for timely
commissioning of all these public health facilities.
.Georgia finds alternative suppliers after Russia's ban on grain
exports.
TBILISI, August 17 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's decision to impose a
provisional ban on exports of wheat in the wake of a big shortfall of
harvest after an unprecedented drought the country witnessed this summer
will not create any major problems for Georgia that has fair reserves of
grain at the moment, Agriculture Minister Bakur Kvezereli said Monday.
"The ban on exports of wheat introduced by the Russian authorities may
become sensitive for the entire region including Georgia to some degree in
the future but as for today, we do have sufficient reserves and
alternative suppliers, like Kazakhstan, Ukraine, the U.S., and Canada,"
Kvezereli told reporters.
"Russia's decision will have a certain impact on market prices of
wheat in the region but there are no grounds for panicking, since no
growth of wheat prices is expected either in August or in September," he
said.
In recent years, Georgia has been producing only 15% of the grain it
needs and importing the other 85%, most of it from Russia and Kazakhstan.
"Grain of Russian origins totaled 60% to 65% in the Georgia's imports
in the past few months," an expert said.
.EMERCOM warns of first cold spells in Siberia.
KRASNOYARSK, August 17 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's Ministry for Emergency
Situations and Civil Defense /EMERCOM/ has issued a warning that cold
spells and ground frosts of about minus 2 degrees Celsius are expected on
a vast territory embracing the Novosibirsk, Tomsk and Kemerovo regions,
the Altai territory, and the Republic of Altai.
"In this connection, emergency situations of a municipal scale
affecting and/or destroying garden crops may develop in these regions,"
EMERCOM's Siberian regional center said.
Emergencies expects also warn of a possibility of "municipal-level
emergency situations caused by equipment failures at transformer
substations, housing and communal utilities, as well as automobile and air
transport."
.EMERCOM's jet with humanitarian aid lands in Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD, August 17 (Itar-Tass) - An Ilyushin-76 cargo jet, which the
Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense /EMERCOM/ uses
for delivering humanitarian aid worldwide, landed at Islamabad airport
Tuesday morning.
It brought to Pakistan, a country stricken by unprecedented floods, a
consignment of over 42 tons of prime necessities, including food rations,
blankets, tents, and matches.
Also, Russian rescuers have brought water purification filters and
first aid medicines to Pakistan. After unloading the cargoes will be
distributed to the areas that have been struck by the calamity especially
severely, a spokesman for Pakistan's Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass.
The floods of the scale that Pakistan has not seen throughout its
history have carried away the lives of over 1,600 people.
All in all, the calamity caused by amassed monsoon showers has
affected more than 20 million people.
The country's agricultural sector has suffered losses amounting to
about $ 2.9 billion and UN officials say a total of $ 460 million will be
needed for eliminating the aftermath of this calamity.
In the meantime, risks are mounting of outbreaks of various infections
in the flooded areas, as potable water is in a dramatically short supply
there.
-0-kle
