On 25 September 2020, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Natalia Petrovna Sanina visited JINR.

The aim of the visit was to discuss measures for intensifying the cooperation between JINR and the Federal Biomedical Agency based on the agreement signed in 2016, as well as to discuss plans for the development of proton therapy for cancer based on the extensive JINR experience and the construction of a specialized medical centre for proton therapy in Dubna.

In the JINR Directorate, N. P. Sanina was welcomed by Director V. A. Matveev. The meeting was also attended by JINR First Vice-Director G. V. Trubnikov, JINR Director Assistant for radiation medicine G. D. Shirkov, VBLHEP Deputy Director Yu. K. Potrebenikov, SIM Office Di­rec­tor A. V. Tamonov, JINR Chief Engineer Assistant E. D. Uglov.

At the end of the visit to JINR, N. P. Sanina had meetings with Acting Head of Dubna S. A. Kulikov, as well as with heads of the Dubna City Hospital. The participants discussed the issues of the creation of a cardiovascular department in the City Hospital, sanitary and epidemiological safety in educational organizations of the city, preventive examinations at enterprises, aid to the City Hospital, as well as an opportunity to renovate the children’s polyclinic in the right-bank part of the city.

It should be reminded that Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation N. P. Sanina previously visited the Joint Institute in 2017 during the visit of Minister of Health of the Russian Federation V. I. Skvortsova.