LAPINO HOSPITAL STARTS TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH PNEUMONIA, INCLUDNG WITH CORONAVIRUS SYMPTOMS

26 March 2020, Moscow. MD Medical Group Investments Plc (“MD Medical Group,” “MDMG,” the “Group” or the “Company” – LSE: MDMG), a leading Russian private healthcare provider, announces that it is starting to treat patients with symptoms of pneumonia, including patients with symptoms of coronavirus, in its clinical hospital Lapino. 

In response to the needs of patients the management of the Company took the decision to start treating patients with symptoms of pneumonia, including patients with symptoms of coronavirus at its clinical hospital Lapino from 30 March 2020. The Lapino hospital has all the necessary medical facilities and professional competencies.

OBGYN patients, as well as the neonatology service patients, will temporarily receive medical help in the new MD Group Clinical Hospital (PMC) on Sevastopolsky prospect in Moscow which has the customary high standards of medical care characteristic of the Group. Obstetricians from the Lapino hospital will be relocated to the hospital to proceed with all delivery contracts. MD Group Clinical Hospital, which recently went through a major renovation, provides all the conditions for comfortable medical treatments.

Surgery, cardiology, traumatology and urology departments of the Lapino Clinical Hospital remain open to receive emergency patients. The paediatric department will continue to operate in normal mode. The Lapino hospital also has a department for pregnant women with signs of acute respiratory viral infections. Hospital work is organised in such a way that patients from different departments will not intersect within the walls of the hospital. The hospital has all the requirements for the autonomous functioning of all of these departments in full compliance with epidemiological standards.