RUSSIA will soon get a made-in-Singapore hospital.
The home-grown Sourcelink Group, in partnership with a private Russian consortium, is building a 14-storey full-fledged diagnostic centre - with hospital facilities - in Vladivostok.
The city, situated north of Harbin, China, and about two hours' flight from Seoul, South Korea, is Russia's largest port city on the Pacific Ocean.
It is also the administrative centre of the Primorsky Krai region.
The 132-bed private medical centre is expected to serve the "top 15 per cent income earners" of the region, which has a population of over two million people, said Sourcelink's general manager, Mr Delvin Khong.
When it opens in the fourth quarter of next year, two of the centre's largest focuses will be obstetrics and gynaecology, as well as cardiology, said Sourcelink's group senior manager Ms Jennifer Tan.
Medical staff will be largely from Russia, while managers will be from both countries.
"We will bring these medical staff to Singapore to be trained, to catch up with the 25 years of technology or so that they are missing," said Mr Khong.
State-of-the-art medical equipment, such as Computed Tomography scan and Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines, will also be installed at the hospital, which cost about US$100 million ($136 million) to build.
Russia is the ninth largest economy in the world today, with gross domestic product growth of over 8 per cent last year.
Singapore's trade with Russia reached $1.88 billion last year.
