Rustam Minnikhanov takes part in opening of a new treatment and rehabilitation centre in Kazan

On 26 January Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov took park in a ceremony of opening a new treatment and rehabilitation centre by the City Clinical Hospital 7 in Kazan, that will carry out rehabilitation of patients with central nervous system damage, somatic diseases, peripheral nervous system and locomotor system diseases as well as the patients after COVID-19.

Speaking at the ceremony, Minnikhanov said: “The City Clinical Hospital 7 is one of the best today and I would like to congratulate everyone with the opening of the new treatment and rehabilitation centre which cost more 1.3bn to build.” 

After the ceremony Minnikhanov looked around the centre which comprises 147 beds in a nine-stored building and is equipped with the modern rehabilitation devices, such as robot-assisted gait training,          transcranial magnetic stimulation with neuronavigation, cognitive rehabilitation using virtual reality, active mechanical treatment and rooms for adaptive physical trainings and sports.

When visiting lecture rooms for students of Kazan medical universities, Minnikhanov was shown a “smart ward” where physically challenged patients restore their abilities to control household appliances and light. Tatarstan President also visited the occupational therapy room, the sports rehabilitation room, kinesiotherapy and oxygen-therapy rooms, the speech therapist office and patients wards.