Reorganising the St Petersburg University Clinic of High Medical Technologies for patients to receive high-tech medical care even faster
The University Clinic is moving to a new stage of development. For the first time in Russia, a university-based medical centre acquires the status of a federal state budgetary healthcare institution. That will improve the system of providing medical care to patients from all over Russia.
The new centre will ensure the continuity of the St Petersburg University Clinic. That means professional medical care will still be fully available to patients.
Each applicant will become a patient of the Clinic where a synthesis of practical and research activities takes place on an everyday basis. It is there that the intellect and qualifications of doctors, attention to each patient as a person and high-quality medical care remain the main values of the team.
Dmitry Shkarupa, Acting Director of the Pirogov Clinic of High Medical Technologies at St Petersburg University; First Deputy Director of the Centre for High Medical Technology
Another expectation is a simplified procedure of the creation of a network of regional outpatient diagnostic branches of the Clinic. That will make it possible for us to bring qualified medical care as close to the general public as reasonably possible and ensure the maximum reach of treated patients in terms of postoperative supervision.
As before, the doctors of the Centre will be able to: use the potential of the University Research Park and laboratories; take part in research; implement their results in their medical practice; develop new treatment technologies; and protect patents for inventions such as equipment, implants, pharmaceuticals, diagnostic and rehabilitation methods.
St Petersburg University will be the founder of the new division, the Centre for High Medical Technology at St Petersburg University.
The status of a medical institution that will be awarded to the Clinic will be also a significant result. The Clinic will be exempt from income tax, which, within different time periods, could reach almost 50 million roubles per year.
Such changes became possible due to the special status of St Petersburg University. In 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a law according to which two Russian universities, St Petersburg University and Lomonosov Moscow State University, were awarded the status of unique academic complexes, the oldest universities in the country being of great importance to the development of Russian society. Our University received the opportunity to develop its own educational standards, conduct additional tests for applicants, and issue its own diplomas.
This year, one more item was added to that list. Now, on behalf of the Russian Federation, St Petersburg University may establish legal entities that will be part of the University’s academic complex.
Decree № 115 of the Russian Government dated 5 February 2022 approved the procedure for Moscow State University and St Petersburg University to establish, on behalf of the Russian Federation, legal entities within their academic complexes.
Aleksandr Kretsu, Deputy Senior Vice-Rector for Medical Care of St Petersburg University, has been appointed Director of the Centre for High Medical Technology at St Petersburg University, while Dmitry Shkarupa has been appointed its First Deputy Director.