Surgical Hospital No. 6 was opened in June 2013 as part of a major development of health facilities in the area in preparation for the Games. 

The six-story building has two surgical operating rooms, as well as emergency, intensive care and laboratory departments. The hospital recently purchased Atlas Copco’s medical vacuum plant mVAC-1000T and BeaconMedaes’s medical air plant cAIR 1800 DG. A medical vacuum plant provides a safe medical vacuum (suction) for a variety of hospital applications, mainly in operating theaters, intensive care, and emergency units while a medical air plant provides the surgical and emergency rooms with ultra clean, purified medical air. 

Installation of the system followed close collaboration between Atlas Copco’s medical air division regional distributor, Aral Engineering and project management company, Giprozdrav. As a world leader in compressor and vacuum technology, Atlas Copco’s reputation for market-leading reliability, outstanding quality and excellent energy efficiency were key factors in the decision to select this company’s equipment over that of other manufacturers.

Chief engineer Shkarev Igor Pavlovitch said: “The selection process was very strict and proposals were submitted by a number of different manufacturers. First of all we paid attention to basic parameters such as reliability, durability and high performance. We also sought the opinion of our colleagues from other clinics that use central medical air plants. Another reason we chose Atlas Copco was because they offered staff training from an Atlas Copco service engineer.” 

He added that although the equipment had only been in place for a short time it was running smoothly and already showing high levels of quality and reliability, such that he is happy to recommend Atlas Copco to other hospitals in the Krasnodar region.

Hospital facility in Sochi, Russia

Maria Borisik, Atlas Copco’s business line manager for Medical Air in Russia, said:  “We were very proud to be involved with this fantastic project. A reliable source of medical air and vacuum is critical to patient safety and will play an important role in the treatment and care that the hospital provides over the course of the Winter Olympics.”  The Atlas Copco mVAC systems provide reliable medical vacuum (suction) for specific applications including wound drainage, assisted wound closure, and removal of excess blood during surgery. An mVAC system consists of two to six air-cooled rotary vane type vacuum pumps and a central controller with an intelligent graphical user interface. The pumps can work independently to satisfy the required vacuum flow.

mVAC Medical Vacuum system