Construction of Nuclear Medicine Center in Russia's Far-East to Start in 2019 - Governor

VLADIVOSTOK (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 29th December, 2018) The construction of a nuclear medicine center that will provide treatment for cancer patients from across Russia's Far-Eastern Primorsky region and neighboring countries will be launched in 2019, the region's governor, Oleg Kozhemyako, said, adding that the center could be built within two years.

"We have agreed that we will now join our efforts, aimed at building the center, with the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East in order to launch the construction in 2019 and complete it within two years," Kozhemyako said on Friday during his meeting with the top management of Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom, VEB development bank and the Health Ministry's top officials, as quoted by the official website of the regional administration on Saturday.

According to a statement, published on the website, regional authorities are planning to sign a road map for the implementation of the project with other parties concerned in January, and the construction works may begin next summer.

A 2.5 billion ruble ($35.9 million) concession agreement on the construction of the nuclear medicine center on Russky Island, located in the south of the region on the Sea of Japan coast, was signed by the regional administration and Rosatom in September.

The center is expected to receive around 6,000 cancer patients every year.�