Strategic Report 01 Overview 02 03 04 Liver transplant To close the medical service gap that had existed in the country In 2014, through joint efforts of Georgian and foreign doctors, for many years, Batumi Referral Hospital was equipped with modern GHG successfully performed the first liver transplant at Batumi infrastructure and all the inventory necessary for liver transplantation. Referral Hospital. We were pioneers and the provider of this service The investment required for a successful roll-out of the project totalled in the country, capturing both local and international demand. around GEL 1.0 million. GHG is providing this service to the local population, helping them avoid higher cost of treatment abroad. Successful liver transplantation significantly reduces mortality caused Recognising the importance of this service, the Ministry of Healthcare by chronic liver diseases. Liver transplantation is the only treatment of the Adjara region started to finance liver transplantation for the of choice during End Stage Liver Diseases (“ESLD”). ESLD represent region’s population with a 50% co-payment. one of the high-priority issues for the World Health Organisation due to its alarming rates of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Since the launch, our team of experienced and dedicated doctors, Imaged a nine-year-old girl, the first paediatric liver transplant patient at our led by a prominent Georgian transplantologist, who has undergone Batumi Referral Hospital. different training courses in Belarus and India, have saved 24 lives and are continuing to improve the quality of life of our patients. Our statistics for patient survival and postsurgical complications correspond to the statistics of the world’s leading transplantology centres. We have recently introduced a paediatric liver transplant service at Batumi Referral Hospital and, by the end of 2018, carried out the first surgery. The transplantation was successfully performed on a nine-year-old girl, who had been given only two months to live. Oncology Our Centre offers individual approach and treatment to each patient In 2015 we launched the largest Oncology Centre (the “Centre”) and a wide variety of oncological services, including: diagnostics, at Kutaisi Regional Referral Hospital. Equipped with cutting-edge radiation oncology, medical oncology, haematology and a full range technology, the Centre represents the largest oncology healthcare of surgical oncology. facility in western Georgia. Our Oncological Centre is an eager participant in the National Screening Programme, which is financed by To properly address the most critical oncological cases, the Centre the state, and promotes early detection of oncological diseases. The operates a special board of doctors who review cases and reach total investment in the Centre amounts to more than GEL 17.0 million. consensus on particular treatments. Along with local doctors, the members of the board include invited Georgian expat consultants The National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health reports from the US, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. Our leading that cancer is the second-leading cause of death after cardiovascular specialists participate in international education programmes, diseases in Georgia (c.14% of total deaths are associated with including further training in the US. oncological diseases). In the past three years, prevalence rates of oncological diseases declined from c.293 in 2015 to c.254 in 2017 Each department of the Centre serves hundreds of patients each year. per 100,000 people. Screening programmes, which help detect1 It is due to a high level of professionalism of our doctors, the board cancer at early stages, introduction of effective diagnosis and involvement and the latest technologies that we manage to cure so treatment have contributed to this decline. many patients and retain the leading position in the field of oncology. 1 NCDC 2017. 19