The territory's clinical hospital is the largest medical institution in the Altai Territory, offering consultative and diagnostic services and high-technology medical care to all residents. Over 25.000 patients are treated at the hospital annually; every year, its doctors perform 17.000 surgeries.
The clinical hospital is the key facility of the Altai Territory medical complex.
Complex is a group of interconnected, geographically close companies or associated institutions working within a specific sector and complementing each other.
A medical complex provides patients with services at the district policlinics as well as the centre of high-technology medical care.
The territory's medical complex comprises the following high-technology medical institutions:
- The Altai Neurovascular Centre (the regional centre for stroke treatment). In 2008, the territory was among 12 constituent entities that began enhancing vascular disease treatment quality as part of the National Health Project. The centre is connected with the primary care departments at Barnaul city hospitals No. 5 and No. 11, and with the Biisk Central City Hospital.
An allocation of 241.5 million roubles from the federal budget and 272.5 million from the regional budget were used to buy special equipment. The number of patients receiving diagnostic service and treatment increased 1.5 times. In 2008, the number of cases of primary disability due to stroke were reduced by 10.7%.
The neurovascular centre has high-technology equipment for cerebral vessel examination (computer guided tomograph machine, angiograph machine, and ultrasound equipment), and equipment for the intensive care and the rehabilitation departments. During brain surgeries, doctors use neuronavigation computer-assisted technology, which allows them to guide their instruments to a selected target.
- Medical appointment scheduling service. Residents of the territory can make appointments via the Internet. The service uses modern information and telecommunication technology. The policlinics at 40 central hospitals, including the territory's children's hospital, ophthalmologic hospital, and the Diagnostics Centre of the Altai Territory offer online medical appointment services. In 2008, 2,500 rural residents used the service and over 5,200 people by June 2009.
The Centre of High Medical Technology specialising in traumatology, orthopedics and endoprosthetics is being constructed in Barnaul. Six more centres will be built in Russia as part of the National Health Project.
Other medical facilities to be included in the complex are under construction, including the Altai Territory Policlinic and the Altai Territory Oncological Policlinic.