Moscow. December 15th. INTERFAX - The Russian Defense Ministry said that up to 97% of Russian servicemen are returning to service after injuries received during a special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine.
"Today - 97%, if we talk about who can return to their duties. This figure reaches 97% today," Dmitry Trishkin, head of the Main Military Medical Department of the Russian Defense Ministry, said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel (VGTRK) on Thursday.
"If we take the experience of the Great Patriotic War, we all understand that then there was a percentage of 70. Today we have reached the figure of 97%. This is a very serious result," Trishkin said.
He said that there are categories of servicemen who are rescued after severe injuries, but they cannot remain in the army service.
According to Trishkin, less than 1 percent of servicemen die from wounds in hospitals.
Trishkin said that hospitals began to receive fewer wounded servicemen in serious and extremely serious condition.
"We have received data that 27% of patients in serious and extremely serious condition were admitted in the first three months, now 24% are being admitted. Heavy became and extremely heavy a little less. The condition of moderate severity is somewhere around 50%. Light, respectively, these figures remain - about 20-22%,"- said the representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Trishkin said that the nature of the wounds is influenced by "the very course of hostilities, the use of different types of weapons."
"As before, 70%, as it was before, account for mine-explosive wounds, 10% - for diseases, 10% - for bullet and gunshot wounds and 10% for injuries. We traced the same figures at the beginning of a special military operation. It's about the same now," Trishkin said.
"We have set up a system that today a serviceman who has received complex, severe injuries will be admitted to the central and main hospital within a day. Today it is necessary to unload the military units as much as possible, evacuate the patient to the nearest hospital in a timely manner," said the chief military medic of the Russian Federation.
