- Sputnik International
World
Get the latest news from around the world, live coverage, off-beat stories, features and analysis.

Russia to Provide Surgical, Reanimation Service to Aleppo Residents

© REUTERS / Abdalrhman IsmailSyrians walk over rubble of damaged buildings, while carrying their belongings, as they flee clashes between government forces and rebels in Tariq al-Bab and al-Sakhour neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo
Syrians walk over rubble of damaged buildings, while carrying their belongings, as they flee clashes between government forces and rebels in Tariq al-Bab and al-Sakhour neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo - Sputnik International
Subscribe
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 Russian Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday.

A general view shows a damaged road and abandoned buildings in Aleppo's militant-held Kalasa neighbourhood - Sputnik International
East Aleppo Populated by 90,000 Fully Liberated From Terrorists - Russian MoD
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered sending special task medical unit and mobile field hospitals to provide immediate medical assistance to the residents of Syria's embattled city of Aleppo and its neighborhoods.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, mobile field hospitals will also include ambulance stations, x-ray room, anesthesiology department, laboratory diagnostics department.

The ministry added that the number of pediatricians and obstetrics in the medical unit will be increased.

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

Newsfeed
0
To participate in the discussion
log in or register
loader
Chats
Заголовок открываемого материала