Uralkali and Medicine AlfaStrakhovaniya opened the corporate clinic branch in Solikamsk

11.11.2015
Uralkali and Medicine AlfaStrakhovaniya opened the corporate clinic branch in Solikamsk

Today, the corporate clinic branch opening of Uralkali-Med in Solikamsk has been fulfilled. Medicine AlfaStrakhovaniya — a subsidiary of the AlfaStrakhovanie Group, managing health centres within the 13 cities of Russia, including Perm and Berezniki, serves as the healthcare operator for the Uralkali Group employees.

The new clinic shall carry out outpatient reception hours by the field experts, as well as periodic health examinations. The rooms are equipped with up-to-date diagnostic medical equipment, including for realisation of ultrasound scanning and ECG.

Functioning of the new corporate clinic branch should reduce the appointments of field experts, and going through the essential examinations of Uralkali Group employees from Solikamsk.

Ruslan Ilyasov, HR Director of PJSC Uralkali, noted:

Health maintenance of Uralkali employees is one of the social policy priorities of our company. The opening of a new clinic has been realised within the framework of a long-term joint program of Uralkali and AlfaStrakhovanie. The new clinic would make the quality health care for the Uralkali Group employees in Solikamsk more affordable.

Mikhail Bershadskyi, President of AlfaStrakhovanie:

AlfaStrakhovanie and our subsidiary, managing the clinic network Alfa-Health Centre, closely cooperate with the Uralkali Group for many years. We are happy to provide the employees living in Solikamsk with the opportunity to receive quality medical care in private clinic. But they are always welcomed by our centres in Perm and Berezniki.

The social package of the Uralkali employees includes the voluntary health insurance program. As part of the Uralkali-Med clinic there has been opened an industrial healthcare branch specialising in periodic, preshift and off-hours medical examinations. In 2014 above 7 thousand employees involved in occupational hazards passed the periodic medical examination.

In total the employees’ rehabilitation, medical aid preventive health care in 2014 have been worthy to Uralkali of more than RUB 175 million.

Uralkali (www.uralkali.com) is one of the world’s largest potash producers and exporters. The Company’s assets consist of 5 mines and 7 ore-treatment mills situated in the towns of Berezniki and Solikamsk (Perm Region, Russia). Uralkali employs ca.11,000 people (in the main production unit). Uralkali’s shares and GDRs are traded on the Moscow Exchange and London Stock Exchange, respectively.