Russian Emergencies Ministry sends mobile hospital with doctors to Lebanon after Beirut explosion

05 August 2020


The Russian Emergencies Ministry is sending a mobile hospital with doctors to Beirut to help victims of the explosion as part of humanitarian action, the press service of the Department reported TASS.

 

 

"Russian Emergencies Ministry planes will send a mobile hospital, doctors, Centrospas rescuers, Rospotrebnadzor specialists with a laboratory for detecting a new coronavirus infection," the Ministry said, adding that five planes will be sent in total.


The Ministry noted that all specialists would be equipped with special suits and protective equipment, taking into account the epidemiological situation due to the coronavirus.

 

The hospital of the Centrospas detachment is able to work in autonomous conditions for 30 days. On an outpatient basis, it can receive up to 200 people a day, and its hospital is designed for 50 patients. The Ministry clarified that the hospital has resuscitation, operating and consulting and diagnostic units, as well as ultrasound units, x-ray rooms, ECG rooms and blood laboratories. It can be used for the most complex surgical operations. If necessary, it can be dropped into the emergency zone, and after 40 minutes to take the first victims.

 

In addition, the Centrospas is one of the three global registries of emergency medical teams, which is created by the WHO, to work in the zone of disasters and catastrophes. It consists of therapists, surgeons, neuropathologists, traumatologists, cardiologists who have repeatedly worked in the area of disasters and natural disasters in Russia and around the world. The hospital can operate at temperatures from minus 50 to plus 50 Celsius. The first experience of combat use of the hospital was during the war in Yugoslavia in 1999. Doctors then held surgeries directly under the bombing of NATO aircraft.

 

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Photo: Russian Emergencies Ministry