The Emergency Care Hospital was opened in Naberezhnye Chelny in 1978.
In 2009–2011, the hospital was renovated (1.9 billion roubles and 20 million euro was allocated from the Tatarstan budget, 71 million roubles from the federal budget, as part of the Health National Priority Project, and 26 million roubles from the Federal Mandatory Insurance Fund as part of the programme to modernise the healthcare sector in the Republic of Tatarstan).
A space of 49,000 square metres was renovated, 834 units of new medical equipment installed, including an MRI machine, two angiographic systems, a 16-and a 64-slice CT scanners and a modern gamma camera.
Russia's leading medical institutions and foreign clinics provided additional training for 144 and 44 doctors respectively.
Highly skilled cardiothoracic surgeons and X-ray endosurgeons from Russia's regions were invited to work in the renovated centre and provided with flats.
After the renovation, the hospital became a centre providing twenty-four-hour emergency, acute and prearranged specialised (including high-technology) medical care within a range of 150 kilometres to 513,000 residents of Naberezhnye Chelny and 1.2 million residents of northeastern Tatarstan.
The hospital provides care for patients with acute cerebrovascular, cardiovascular and oncology diseases and burns. The hospital is also a first-level injury care centre treating people injured in accidents on the 150-km M7 Volga Highway.
An up-to-date assessment and diagnostics room was opened, where flows of patients are sorted into three groups: those who need acute, pre-arranged or outpatient care. The relatives of patients are offered a comfortable rest zone and corresponding information support.
About 350-400 people come daily to the assessment and injury department, with 150 patients being admitted to the hospital.
In 2011, the hospital provided outpatient consultations and diagnostics to 40,000 people, treated 19,900 people (17,200 in 2010), performed 9,500 surgeries (6,400 in 2010). Every day, 40-50 surgeries are performed, 30% of which are emergency. The average duration of treatment is 11.3 days.
In 2011, the hospital provided high-technology medical care in 6 specialties, performed 1,400 high-technology surgeries (150 of them were financed by the federal budget), including 18 microsurgical resections of brain tumours with the use of German Brainlab equipment.
In 2010, patient catering, security service, laundry, elevator maintenance, cleanroom complexes and ventilation system were outsourced.
As part of the programme to modernise the republic's healthcare sector, seven standards of medical care for strokes and heart attacks were introduced at the hospital. In 2011, 392 employees of the hospital took part in the programme, with the average performance rate of 98% and 700 patients treated.
The doctors' average monthly salary increased by 66%, compared to 2010 (from 16,800 roubles to 28,000). The salary of nurses increased by 55% (from 10,400 roubles to 16,200).
Ildar Khairullin is the chief doctor of the Naberezhnye Chelny Emergency Care Hospital.