Penza, 16 January 2018. PenzaNews. In 2017, the Penza regional medical exercises dispensary received equipment worth 10,800,000 roubles.

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Some of it became available to the institution in December.

As it was reported by the chief physician of the medical exercises dispensary Yulia Smirnova, these are, in particular, ultrasonic scanning equipment, rheograph and artromot.

She added that equipment for daily monitoring of blood pressure and electrocardiography had been also purchased for the needs of the institution.

"In the future, we plan to buy express analysers to determine blood lactate, which is also very important when assessing the functional state of patients," the chief physician added.

As it was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Health, patients of the dispensary are mainly professional athletes but in the future it is planned to hold advisory reception of population on issues of healthy lifestyle and medical gymnastics.