Specialists of the Military Construction Complex (VSK) of the Russian Ministry of Defense will erect a new hospital complex with a polyclinic on the territory of the Moscow region to provide medical care to residents of the region. This is stated in the message of the department, which is at the disposal of Izvestia on Thursday, October 21.
It is noted that this decision was made as part of the fulfillment of the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin. While the governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov addressed the head of state with a request for construction.
"In the city district of Istra, military builders will build a multidisciplinary round-the-clock hospital with 160 beds, in which therapeutic, cardiological, traumatology departments, gynecology, pulmonology and resuscitation will be deployed," the statement said.
Patients with a new coronavirus infection will also be able to receive medical care within the walls of the new center.
The ministry explained that as part of the hospital, the project provides for the creation of an operating and diagnostic unit with X-ray diagnostics and a department of medical rehabilitation and endoscopy, as well as a polyclinic. The total building area will exceed 17.5 thousand sq. m.
Military builders plan to hand over the hospital complex in May 2022. Currently, specialists of the Military Construction Complex of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation are building a new military hospital in Kazan. So, in this medical institution, military personnel, their family members, as well as the civilian population of Tatarstan will be able to receive high-tech medical care.
In addition, the VSK has begun construction of a garrison hospital in the city of Mirny, which is located in the Arkhangelsk region. It is planned to hand over the institution by the end of 2023.
In 2020, the Ministry of Defense promptly built 30 multifunctional medical centers. According to Deputy Defense Minister Tatiana Shevtsova, the work was going on around the clock. Their construction, commissioning and equipping took from two to three months, she added.
At the same time, on October 20, Putin instructed the Ministry of Health to support the regions with personnel and medicines. In addition, the Russian leader demanded to control the availability of medicines and oxygen in the regions for patients with COVID-19.
On the same day, it became known that the Russian Defense Ministry, on behalf of Putin, would transfer liquefied oxygen from military units to the regions. The ministry clarified that on October 21, another 27 tons of liquefied oxygen will be transferred to seven subjects: the Republic of Bashkortostan, as well as the Volgograd, Kirov, Moscow, Smolensk, Tver and Ulyanovsk regions.
A large-scale vaccination has been taking place in Russia since January. Five coronavirus vaccines have been registered in the country: Sputnik V, which became the first COVID-19 vaccine in the Russian Federation and the world, as well as Sputnik Light, Epivaccorona, Epivaccorona-N and Kovivak.
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