YEREVAN, May 13. /ARKA/. VTB has announced the launch of a new project designed to attract patients from CIS countries and other friendly states for medical treatment in Russia, the press service of VTB (Armenia) reported.
VTB Medicine will organize the whole cycle of medical services, providing full support: from searching for doctors and clinics to solving transfer and accommodation issues. According to the bank’s estimates, the potential clientele of this project will be at least 1 million people annually.
VTB Medicine will offer a full range of services, including clinic selection, cost estimation, appointment booking, document translation, insurance and patient support at the clinic.
The first partner clinics – both private networks and public institutions (on a fee basis) – will join the pilot project in June. It will be possible to apply for the selection of a medical facility in the test mode through the VTB Medicine website and the official information website Russiamedtravel.ru, created with the support of the Russian Ministry of Health.
“Russian doctors have long been recognized as world experts, and it is not surprising that the number of foreigners planning their treatment with us is growing. Medical tourism is an important sector of the economy, and we are ready to actively support it, for which we have created a new company – VTB Medicine. We work in all regions of the country, have the largest network of partners in the field of social protection, and also undertake international settlements, which is one of the main obstacles for foreign clients these days. I am confident that our new project will become a driver of medical tourism in Russia,” said Georgy Gorshkov, Deputy President-Chairman of VTB’s Management Board.
“We have conducted quantitative and qualitative research in the CIS countries, which shows a great demand for prompt and quality medical care, with respondents’ demand exceeding the capabilities of local medicine in terms of speed or level of services. At the same time, 90% of respondents in the CIS countries expressed their trust in Russian medicine. That is why we offer citizens from Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Belarus and other countries full support from the moment a patient places an application until the result of treatment is received,” said Sergey Nechaev, General Director of VTB Medicine.
Every year more than 1 million CIS citizens receive medical care in Russia. At the same time, according to estimates of the analytical company IQVIA, strictly medical tourists who come to the country only to receive medical services number about 130 thousand people, and the average check (excluding migrant workers) is about $630.
VTB Medicine estimates that by 2030 the market of medical tourism in Russia from CIS countries, when promoting medical services, may grow by 2 times in terms of the number of patients and more than 3 times in monetary terms in key areas such as neurosurgery, ophthalmology, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, traumatology and orthopedics, cardiology and cardiovascular surgery. -0-
