(Kazan City
KZN.RU, December 21). President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov
visited the main medical facilities of the Kazan Federal University. Head of
the republic was accompanied by the Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin.
The first point
on the program was a visit to the neurological department of RCH-2 at Volkov street.
Reconstruction was completed here recently. As the director of the Institute of
Biology and Fundamental Medicine of KFU Andrei Kiyasov told, today translational
medicine, aimed at improving the quality of health care through the translation
of the results of advanced research in the field of diagnostics, treatment and
rehabilitation, is actively developing at the university clinic.
Genomic center,
created in cooperation with Japanese scientists, was showed to visitors. One of
the first projects implemented here is checking of drugs on harmlessness. As
the employees of the center told, today many drugs have side effects, and they
are closely related to the human genotype. These studies will allow conducting
detailed work in this area.
The
President and his accompanying toured the classrooms, where both students and
current doctors will receive the necessary knowledge, diagnostic laboratory,
bio bank and clean rooms for work with human cells.
Another
object during the inspection was the department of therapy and neurology of City
Emergency Hospital №2 at Schmidt street. Today overhaul continues here, during
which available infrastructure will be fully updated and advanced equipment will
be imported. Another object - a city hospital №2, built in 1849, expects reconstruction.
Finally,
Rustam Minnikhanov appreciated the renovated premises in the second
educational-laboratory building of KFU. In particular, he examined the marble
hall and the center of linguistic competence of the Institute of International
Relations, History and Oriental Studies, the press service of the President of
the Republic of Tatarstan informs.
In addition
to the President of Tatarstan and the Mayor of Kazan, the inspertion was
attended by Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Asgat
Safarov, Rector of KFU Ilshat Gafurov, Minister of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan
Adel Vafin, Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing of Tatarstan
Irek Faizullin, representatives of ministries and departments.