MOSCOW. June 7 (Interfax-AVN) - The Burdenko mail military clinical hospital annually provides medical aid to 20,000 people, chief of the hospital Major General Vyacheslav Klyuzhev said on Monday.
Up to 30 percent of the hospital's patients come from other hospitals of the country, and about 40 percent are delivered by emergency ambulance vehicles from the Moscow region, Klyuzhev told Interfax-Military News Agency. The hospital may admit up to 300 people a day from areas of military operations, environmental and man-made disasters, he added.
"The hospital is always ready to receive sick and wounded people and provide the most up-to-date and efficient aid," he stressed.
Klyuzhev also noted that "experts of the world's leading insurance companies have rated the Burdenko hospital as number one on the list of 160 best medical establishments of Moscow and St. Petersburg as far as professionalism of its personnel is concerned."
The hospital currently employs 34 professors, 64 doctors of medical sciences, and 154 candidates of medical sciences, and 166 of its employees are participants in combat. Ten departments of the Defense Ministry's institute of professional retraining of doctors use facilities of the hospital. In addition, the hospital has conducted extramural adjunct training for the past six years, having trained a total of 22 doctors and 76 candidates of medical sciences.