Health sells at Moscow billionaires' hospital

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

MOSCOW (AFP) — Caviar for patients recovering from a blood test, psychoanalysis at 10,000 dollars (6,360 euros) per hour: nothing is too much for ailing billionaires at the Neo Vita clinic in Moscow's swishest suburb.

For the clinic's founder, Artyom Tolokonin, ensuring good health for the capital's super-rich inhabitants is even better for his pocket book.

The 33-year-old psychoanalyst says that about a dozen residents of the Rublyovka neighbourhood -- dubbed Moscow's Beverly Hills -- are paying for year-round treatments costing as much as a million dollars (636,000 euros) a time.

"They say you can't buy health, but yes you can, since we sell it," he tells AFP at the facility, which opened in February in Rublyovka's so-called Valley of Dreams area.

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