EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT OF AMETHYST

The Amethyst Group is expanding its operations in the UK, Austria and Romania.  It currently operates twelve radiotherapy centers in six countries, with another twenty in planning or development.

Opened in May 2020, Amethyst Vienna is the first private radiotherapy center in Austria. The clinic is located on the premises of the largest private hospital, Wiener PrivatKlinik. The center in Vienna can treat 1200 patients a year. It is designed so that it can be expanded with another linear accelerator to further increase treatment capacity in this area.

In April 2020, a third linear accelerator was installed in a clinic in Bucharest. Thanks to this, the Romanian facility can admit 240 patients requiring radiotherapy treatment every day.

Also in April this year, Amethyst's operations were expanded to include centers in Great Britain. British centers in London and Sheffield offer patients a non-invasive treatment method of intracranial radiotherapy using the GammaKnife device.

GammaKnife is a radiosurgical platform thanks to which procedures are performed without the intervention of a scalpel. GammaKnife uses up to 201 precisely targeted radiation beams to control malignant and non-malignant tumors, as well as vascular and functional disorders in the brain, without harming surrounding healthy tissue. Patients typically come and go from the hospital within a day and return to normal activities shortly after treatment. GammaKnife radiosurgery can be used instead of traditional surgery or whole-brain irradiation, depending on the diagnosis made for the individual patient.

Amethyst is focused on providing the highest quality services to patients, working closely with neurosurgeons and oncologists, as well as private payers and providers across the healthcare economy - He said Ludovic Robert, group CEO.  – Amethyst expects to continue to expand its business across the UK and other European countries - added.

The Amethyst Group has 17 oncology patients treated annually. Over 000 people, including 11 doctors, are employed in 400 European centers. Clinics use 65 linear accelerators for radiotherapy.