MAKHACHKALA. July 3 (Interfax) - Military doctors working in multi-purpose field hospitals of the Russian Defense Ministry have completed their work helping the people of Russia's internal republic of Dagestan fight the spread of Covid-19, the press service for the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"Military doctors have provided the necessary assistance in infectious disease hospital units of the field hospitals deployed in the settlement of Botlikh and in the city of Buinaksk for more than a month. More than 200 local residents have gone through the hospitals; they completed full courses of treatment and were discharged following recovery," the Defense Ministry said.
Some 1,500 citizens received medical and consultative assistance, which was provided by the medical brigades of the Russian Defense Ministry at rural health posts, in polyclinics, and in district hospitals in hard-to-access areas in the mountains, and 1,500 PCR tests using the newest mobile laboratories were performed, the ministry said.
"The military field hospitals have now finished admitting people for treatment as in-patients. People will be treated in the republic's central city and district hospitals and, should the need arise, in the Defense Ministry's new multi-purpose medical centers built in the cities of Derbent, Kaspiysk, and Khasavyurt," it said.