The agreement will strongly benefit the level of healthcare provided in Verkhnekamie, offering doctors greater opportunities for professional development, as well as improving the benefits package for healthcare workers at the Vagner Hospital.

Healthcare professionals and hospital employees will be offered the following benefits: interest reimbursement on housing loans, vouchers for health resorts, and trips to Uralkali’s health centre, ‘Ural Gems’, for their children.

Uralkali is a long-standing sponsor of the Vagner Hospital in Berezniki, and traditionally provides the facility with necessary modern healthcare equipment.

In 2019, in order to provide high-quality and timely medical services to Verkhnekamie residents, the Company donated state-of-the-art medical equipment worth over RUB 33 million to the hospital. This included a hyperthermic perfusion device for the oncology unit, laser equipment for endourological surgery, a radio frequency generator for neurosurgery, drills for the traumatology and orthopaedics departments and 50 hospital beds provided for patient care in all departments with in-patients.

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 plants in the towns of Berezniki and Solikamsk (Perm Region, Russia). Uralkali employs more than 12,000 people in the main production unit. Uralkali’s shares are traded on the Moscow Exchange.