Medics in the Russian peacekeeping contingent continue to provide qualified assistance to the residents of Nagorno-Karabakh in the field hospitals of the RF Ministry of Defense. In total, more than 1,300 people have received it since the beginning of the work of the points, including about 200 children.
Reception is conducted in the cities of Stepanakert and Mardakert. In addition, multifunctional mobile medical teams provide polyclinic assistance as part of humanitarian and medical campaigns in remote settlements.
Consultations and necessary appointments are carried out by more than 60 medical specialists, such as therapists, surgeons, anesthesiologists-resuscitators, epidemiologists and other specialized specialists.
“The main pathologies treated are cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, diseases of the bone apparatus,” said the head of the special-purpose medical unit No. 2, stationed in the city of Mardakert, major of the medical service Dmitry Naumov.
He also added that, if necessary, Russian military specialists provide consultative and diagnostic assistance, perform procedures: ultrasound, laboratory and X-ray diagnostics.
On April 6, it became known that the Ministry of Health of Nagorno-Karabakh is studying the possibility of supplying the Sputnik V vaccine to the unrecognized republic. NKR Foreign Minister David Babayan told Izvestia about this. According to him, the medical department is negotiating with the Russian side to study the effectiveness of the vaccine.
He also noted that the vaccine could be delivered to the republic from the Russian Federation through a peacekeeping mission. According to Izvestia’s sources in the Ministry of Defense, if a decision is made to vaccinate the population in the NKR, the contingent has everything it needs to quickly start this work.