The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry deployed its mobile field hospital in the earthquake-hit region of Puente Alto in Chile on March 14
The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry deployed its mobile field hospital in the earthquake-hit region of Puente Alto in Chile on March 14
Most of the region’s healthcare facilities were destroyed, so Russia’s field hospital will have a lot of work on its hands
It took Russian rescuers about four hours to put up the field hospital and unload the medical equipment and supplies
The medical team erected three operating rooms, a resuscitation unit, an intensive care unit, a diagnostics center and an outpatient room in a local school gymnasium
The “rooms” are inflated modules that resemble ordinary tents until they are put together
The field hospital has the facilities to perform the most complicated operations
The hospital has approximately 60 beds for serious and critical patients
The hospital’s surgeons, trauma specialists, pediatricians and general physicians are also ready to receive up to 150 patients in stable condition
Chilean doctors who can speak Russian will work together with the Russian rescuers
On Sunday, Russian doctors treated six Chileans injured by the earthquake. The hospital’s resuscitation unit had three patients on early Monday. Photo: Russian mobile field hospital before commencing its work
Two Russian EMERCOM aircraft arrived in Chile on Saturday
Chilean soldiers helped unload the aircraft
