Russia's aid is aimed to help the residents of Aleppo, the ministry said.
"Upon the arrival in the Syrian Arab Republic, Russian military doctors will provide medical assistance to civilians and refugees in the Aleppo region."
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, mobile field hospitals will also include ambulance stations, x-ray room, anesthesiology department, laboratory diagnostics department. Russian mobile field hospitals, which are set to be deployed in Syria’s Aleppo, will include a surgery department, intensive care unit, children's therapeutics department, the ministry said.
On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered sending mobile field hospitals to Syria in order to provide immediate medical assistance to residents of Syria's embattled city of Aleppo and its neighborhoods.
