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Norilsk Nickel opens a second corporate medical center in the Arctic Circle

26 july 2023

The specialists attracted by the company and the latest diagnostic equipment make it possible to increase the level of medical care in Dudinka, where several thousand employees of Norilsk Nickel Group enterprises work.

The new clinic, which has a staff of 22 specialists, will be able to receive more than 13.000 patients a year. In addition, doctors of narrow specialties from the Norilsk corporate clinic will come to the medical center to provide specialized medical care, the press service of Norilsk Nickel told Rough&Polished.

According to Grigory Filippov, head of the Corporate Medicine project office, the company attracts the best specialists from all over the country to its medical centers.

"We conduct a thorough selection. We have specialists who have come from different cities, from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. Medical personnel are brought under a special program that provides for the payment of the road and luggage, lifting, payment for rental housing," Filippov said.

Norilsk Nickel has been implementing a project to develop corporate medicine since 2019. The program includes the construction of a network of corporate medical clinics in the Norilsk industrial district, the modernization of existing ones and the creation of new production health centers, as well as the revival of medical offices in them.

The first corporate medical center was opened by Norilsk Nickel in 2021. The company plans to open medical centers in Talnakh and Kayerkan.

Alex Shishlo for Rough&Polished