Military closing down mobile Covid-19 hospital in Khakassia

NOVOSIBIRSK. Jan 25 (Interfax) - The staff of the Russian Central Military District's hospital deployed on the premises of the A. Lebed Rehabilitation Center in Chernogorsk, Khakassia, has accomplished the mission of assistance to the local population and the republic's administration in the fight against Covid-19, the Central Military District press service said in a statement on Monday.

"Over the period of the hospital's operation, more than 400 persons have been treated for Covid-19. Patients were admitted from 12 municipal and district hospitals of the region with the confirmed Covid-19 diagnoses upon computer tomography tests for receiving further therapy," the statement said.

Once the work was done, the servicemen disinfected hardware in the red zone and started to close down the mobile hospital, to load equipment, and to prepare hardware for moving back to permanent bases.

The mobile hospital of the Central Military District, which was deployed on the premises of the A. Lebed Rehabilitation Center in Chernogorsk, Khakassia, received its first patients on November 16, 2020.

The mobile hospital had 100 beds and consisted of laboratories, an ICU, and an infectious disease department equipped with three ventilators, an X-ray machine and other medical equipment necessary for treating infectious diseases. The military hospital employed 86 servicemen, doctors and nurses from the Central Military District.