"Doctor Voyno-Yasenetsky (Saint Luke)" health train sets off on the maiden journey

On November 13, the forecourt of the Krasnoyarsk station became the venue for an inauguration of the mobile consulting and diagnostic center arranged aboard the health train named "Doctor Voyno-Yasenetsky (Saint Luke)". After the ceremony, a train with a team of highly qualified doctors from the Krasnoyarsk Railway Hospital set off on its first two-week trip aimed at providing healthcare services to the residents of Kuragino, Koshurnikovo, Mana, Sayanskaya etc.

This was the first large-scale healthcare project within public-private partnership implemented by Russian Railways and the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

The regional budget allocated 50 million rubles for medical equipment supplies to the mobile consulting and diagnostic center. Russian Railways sponsored the project by donating over 100 million rubles to the rail-mounted healthcare facility.

The "Saint Luke" diagnostic center is comprised of 9 carriages, equipped with the latest medical, diagnostic and laboratory equipment. With doctors of 15 specialties, the facility capacities enable receiving up to 150 outpatients per shift, which means 30,000 visits per year, and conducting a wide range of function and laboratory tests.

Mobile consulting and diagnostic centers (nicknamed "polyclinics on wheels") are a unique philanthropic project of the Russian Railways.

About a million outpatients residing near remote stations in the Russian North, Far East and Siberia have benefited from these healthcare facilities over the past decade. At the moment, 4 rail-mounted outpatient clinics keep plying on the Russian railway network: "Health" on the West Siberian Railway, "Therapist Matvey Mudrov" on the Far Eastern Railway, "Surgeon Nikolai Pirogov" of the Northern Railway and "Doctor Voyno-Yasenetsky (Saint Luke)" of the Krasnoyarsk Railway. The idea of "polyclinics on wheels" is rooted in the concept of medical and sanitary trains of the Great Patriotic War.