ST.PETERSBURG. July 11 (Interfax-AVN) - The military commissioner's office of the Russian internal republic of Komi has tested in practice new equipment for diagnosing HIV carriers and drug addicts among citizens eligible for active duty service, Colonel Sergei Talanov, chief of the draft section in the Leningrad military district's mobilization department, said on Friday.
"Capabilities of the equipment were tested during the latest draft and praised by both the military commissioner's office and local bodies of the Interior Ministry and other law-enforcement agencies. The latter started to contact the republican military commissioner's office for assistance," Talanov told Interfax- Military News Agency.
Earlier methods of express analysis "produced results, too, but the new computer tool for express diagnostics of HIV and drug addition has immensely broader capabilities," he said.
"Thanks to the administration of the Central Military Medical Commission, Moscow will host a training course for experts of military medical commissions from Russian regions in September and October in order to help them master the new computer hardware. Funds have already been allocated for procuring the hardware for regional military medical commissions," the official said.
"Attention paid by leaders of Komi law-enforcement agencies to the use of new hardware is quite understandable. The issue is important because the manning of the Armed Forces with healthy recruits is a problem. This is mostly because the health of teenagers and young men is constantly declining, and the measures taken by the healthcare bodies to stabilize the situation have had no effect," Talanov noted.