The mobile clinical diagnostic centre (PCDC) “St. Panteleimon” was presented in early August in Moscow and in the middle of the month it started working in the Amur region, where it travelled by BAM, visiting eight remote villages: Verkhnezeisk, Tyndu, Tataul, Marevo, Dipkun, Tungal, Dugdu, Fevralsk and Isu. At the stations, the train doctors treated up to 140 patients within the framework of compulsory medical insurance.
“Each modular vehicle is equipped according to its profile. For the population living far from district hospitals and the regional capital, in general, this is an excellent opportunity to receive a full examination and consultation with specialists,” said Svetlana Leontyeva, Minister of Health of the Amur Region.
The “Saint Panteleimon” consists of 14 carriages: 8 medical and 6 domestic. There are carriages for radiology and functional diagnostics, two therapeutic rooms, an operating room, a laboratory carriage, a resident carriage and a registration carriage.
The train’s equipment is adapted to the transport conditions and voltage; the devices are equipped with artificial intelligence technologies to describe the images on the devices and indicate a possible diagnosis to the patient. There is a medical information system that communicates with the central base through satellite dishes installed on the train.
Taking into account the harsh conditions of the Far East, the train was equipped with additional high-capacity tanks and a water filtration system, a liquid fuel heating system was connected, the carriage was equipped with a diesel-electric station with a total capacity of 1350 kW, fuel, water and drainage pipelines were insulated, and the satellite communication system was duplicated.
On the train you can undergo X-rays, mammograms, spirometry, ultrasounds and stress tests, and, upon referral from a therapist, receive advice from an endocrinologist, urologist, surgeon, pediatrician and geriatrician.
“We must use all means that will help us to examine people’s health, especially where there are still no first-aid posts or outpatient clinics. This is what has now been discussed with the train management, with the train’s medicine and with the Russian Railways’ medicine in general. We came to a conclusion: “This form of providing such high-quality medical services must be developed,” said Primorye Health Minister Evgeny Shestopalov at the presentation of the train.
On September 8, the train will continue its journey to carry out a noble mission in remote villages of the Khabarovsk Territory. The last one of this year, “Saint Panteleimon” will visit Buryatia, where it is expected at the stations of Naushki, Dzhida, Selendum, Gusinoye Ozero, Zagustai, Gorkhon, Novoilinsky, Zaigraevo, Tataurovo, Selenga, Mysovaya (Babushkin), Tankhoy, and Vydrino.
Next year, the train will visit eight constituent entities of the Far Eastern-Siberian Federal District: Buryatia, Yakutia, Transbaikalia, Primorye, Khabarovsk Territory, Amur, Irkutsk regions and the Jewish Autonomous Okrug.
Earlier, RG wrote that Russian President Vladimir Putin announced at the EEF 2024 that a clinical train would begin operating in the Far East in September.
