Russia will have a fully domestic production of dialysis machines

The Industrial Development Fund has granted Pharmasintez Group of Companies a loan of 1 billion rubles for five years. The funds will be used to open Russia's first integrated production of medical equipment and consumables for dialysis, Roman Petrutsa, director of the Industrial Development Fund, told Izvestia.

"The creation of the new plant is designed to reduce Russia's dependence on foreign suppliers, to provide patients with high-quality medical products and effective therapy," he added.

According to the FRP, after reaching full capacity, the enterprise will be able to annually produce more than 1.5 thousand devices for various types of dialysis, 7 million units of hemodialysis consumables and about 20 million consumables for the equipment.

It is planned to start producing the full list of products for dialysis by the end of 2025, Nikolay Panikarovsky, General Director of Pharmasintez-Medtech, told Izvestia.

But the creation of the plant is only the first stage of the company's import substitution program; it intends to allocate more than 20 billion rubles for this purpose by 2030, said Vikram Punia, president of Pharmasintez Group of Companies.

"After the sudden withdrawal of the American company Baxter from the Russian market, Pharmasintez GC took emergency measures to launch production and supply of dialysis solutions. Taking into account that supplies of equipment and consumables from unfriendly countries are unstable, we decided to make Russia absolutely independent from supplies of foreign equipment and consumables for dialysis," he emphasized.

The press-service of the Group of Companies specified that the production capacity will cover the entire demand of Russian patients for consumables and medical equipment for permanent outpatient and automated peritoneal dialysis, as well as from 75% to 100% of the demand for medical equipment and consumables for hemodialysis.

Now on the Russian market there are hemodialysis machines "Malakhit" and "Malakhit 2", created on the platform of Nipro (Japan) machines. And, as noted in the company, the strategic task of the company is to establish the production of dialysis apparatus from 100% domestic components.

According to Galina Goretskaya, chairman of the board of the patient organization "Nephro-Liga", in Russia about 54 thousand patients are on hemodialysis and about 2 thousand - on peritoneal dialysis.

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