Russia Sends Planes With Field Hospitals, Surgeons, Medical Equipment to Syria

Russia has sent military-transport planes with field hospitals, surgeons and medical equipment to Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Russia's aid is aimed to help the residents of Aleppo, the ministry said.

"Upon the arrival in the Syrian Arab Republic, Russian military doctors will provide medical assistance to civilians and refugees in the Aleppo region."

The Defense Ministry has sent a special medical unit equipped with a multipurpose hospital for 100 patients, which has a children ward, while the Emergencies Ministry will send a mobile field hospital for 50 patients, which can also provide ambulatory treatment for some 200 people per day.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, mobile field hospitals will also include ambulance stations, x-ray room, anesthesiology department, laboratory diagnostics department. Russian mobile field hospitals, which are set to be deployed in Syria’s Aleppo, will include a surgery department, intensive care unit, children's therapeutics department, the ministry said.

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered sending mobile field hospitals to Syria in order to provide immediate medical assistance to residents of Syria's embattled city of Aleppo and its neighborhoods.