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How the Guzovsky family “skims the skins” on medical topics

- 25.09.2024
How the Guzovsky family “skims the skins” on medical topics

Mask, who are you?

Brothers Arkady and Maxim Guzovsky, and now Maxim Arkadyevich, are engaged in the sale of goods and provision of medical-related services. For some reason, the scandals that accompany this activity do not affect their business. And the next strain of coronavirus expected by doctors is unlikely to bypass the Guzovsky family.

Difficult birth

In 2017, Ufa published the results of a non-competitive selection of a concessionaire, to whom they decided to transfer the management of the only maternity hospital and dairy kitchen in the city of Salavat for 23 years. The concession agreement was signed by the government of Bashkiria and the Ufa JSC “Genus”who promised to invest in the development of medical institutions RUB 286 million – 100 million rubles. for reconstruction and 186 million rubles. for medical equipment.

The work of the medical institution with the new management caused discontent among local residents and medical staff due to violations of labor laws. This gave the Bashkortostan prosecutor’s office a reason to check the activities of the maternity hospital, and ultimately return the medical institution to the operational management of the state. By the way, CJSC Genus, formed in Ufa in 2005, still exists there today – with two employees and a loss last year of 3.2 million rubles. Among the founders of the disgraced “Genus” were Maxim And Lyudmila Guzovskie. The press started talking about members of the Guzovsky family.

It is known that the brothers Arkady And Maxim Guzovskie own shares in Delrus group of companiesfederal network of clinical laboratories “Citylab” (more than 50 branches, from Krasnoyarsk to Krasnodar), a network of dialysis centers “Nephroline” (33 institutions from Komi to Grozny and Feodosia), reproductive clinic “Genome”.

Medical supplies Guzovskys and their partner Yulay Magadeev (young graduates of the geological exploration faculty) started out as “shuttles”, with Vietnamese ointment and surgical latex gloves.

When a container of gloves arrived from Thailand in 1990, we found out that the customer had a great need for other consumables and equipment. The field seemed to us unplowed“- recalls Magadeev.

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The business, which began in the province, expanded to other regions. We bought a large building in Dubna, near Moscow, and set up the production of blood transfusion systems, dialysis lines, and latex gloves there. Now the income from the Moscow branch of Delrus accounts for a third of the holding’s total profit.

There were also troubles at work. In May 2019, the Delrus-DVRTs company (branch in Vladivostok) paid a fine in the amount 7 million rub. for a cartel agreement with the Kamchatka Regional Hospital named after. Lukashevsky at the auction for the supply of medical equipment. As the antimonopoly service established, representatives of the clinic and the distributor formed a task for a specific model, which limited competition in the competition with an initial maximum contract price of 49 million rubles. It is known: “to whom is war, and to whom mother is dear,” all fines were “recovered” during the Covid-19 pandemic. On deliveries related to coronavirus, Guzovsky firms became richer by RUB 4.4 billion. Only then did it earn more (21 billion rubles) Rostec Corporation.

Fans are fire!

m. Semashko, where three people died as a result of a fire due to carbon monoxide poisoning. Roszdravnadzor, by order No. 5436 of June 9, 2021, suspended their use. Moreover, the order mentioned only the PRUNUS Boaray 5000D devices supplied by Delrus LLC.

Largest

The network of laboratories “Citylab” in covid times, based on the results of 2021, made good money on tests, and recorded RUB 8.8 billion revenue. In 2020, “Delrus” of the Guzovsky brothers and Yulai Magadeev was characterized by the business press as “the largest supplier of medical equipment in Russia.” Although the SPARK database warns that this company is a counterparty with increased risks: it earns almost everything from government contracts, and it has unpaid fines.

The Guzovskys also made good money by supplying equipment manufactured by the American General Electric company within the framework of the national project “Healthcare”. True, doctors have repeatedly had questions about the quality of the supplied devices: many of them were not new, but refurbished. It seems that the Guzovskys are now earning money not only in Russia, but also in Kazakhstan. In Astana a year ago, Maxim Guzovsky Jr. registered a private company “Imed limited”which intended to engage in the wholesale trade of medical equipment and orthopedic products.

Covid doesn’t sleep

Covid-19, which has caused so much trouble around the world, has not yet been completely defeated. Doctors do not talk about the scale of a possible re-epidemic, but they warn that Covid may return. The XEC virus has already emerged and manifests itself similarly to other recent Omicron subvariants. It is more contagious than others. Rospotrebnadzor is monitoring the situation and notes its rapid spread. Who will help doctors save patients from Covid this winter? The reasons why the structures of the Guzovsky brothers could not repeat their multi-billion-dollar experience have not yet been traced.

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Claire Ramirez