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Dr Agishev’s Visit to Australia
Dr Agishev is a very senior Russian clinician who earned his PhD in Medicine in the 1960s.
He has been Director of the 2,125 bed Skvortsova-Stepanova Psychiatric Hospital since
January 1988 when he was elected to that position by his peers. His status is such that he
carries the honorific title of Honoured Doctor of the Russian Federation. His hospital is one
of the largest of its kind in Russia, and one of only two Russian psychiatric hospitals that
incorporates both a full scale 88 bed infectious diseases unit (including an HIV-AIDS
treatment facility) and an intensive care unit.

1 hospital 2125 beds.