Dear Carmina,

I hope you are fine.

With this letter, I would like to inform you about our opinion regarding Project GEO6010 “Creating a Radiation Medicine Education and Training Strategy”.

As we know, it is not possible to purchase the X-ray machine for the Rukhi hospital due to known reasons. Accordingly, our goal is to use the existing sources within the Project GEO6010 to develop another state hospital in the direction of Oncology.

In Tbilisi there is located a Universal Medical Center (formerly the National Center for Oncology), which is the only state hospital in Georgia providing Oncological services at this stage (2nd clinic will be hospital of  Rukhi, which very soon will start operating). Consequently, strengthening this clinic is a high priority issue for the country.

Therefore, our and personally Minister’s request is, if possible, to help strengthen the Universal Medical Center. In particular, at this stage it is very necessary to buy the equipment - XStrahl 300 - for this clinic. Currently we do not have such kind of equipment in Georgia. Detailed information about the need for the device can be seen in the attached file.

Please let us know your opinions about the using the existing sources from previous year project to equip the Universal Medical Center and purchase the XStrahl 300 for the clinic.

Thank you very much for assistance.

Kind regards,

Natia