Russian military medicine has “stood the test” in Ukraine, Russian Defense Ministry head Andrei Belousov said at a board meeting of the ministry. According to him, 96% of wounded soldiers return to service after treatment, while the mortality rate in hospitals is “less than half a percent and continues to decline.”
Belousov noted that thanks to the use of air medical evacuation and military sanitary trains, the survival rate of the wounded at the front has also increased. He added that in the future medical units will be “equipped” with modern means of defense, and robots will be used to transport the wounded from the battlefield. In the meantime, Belousov urged to “focus on training servicemen in first aid skills,” for which the Defense Ministry’s Center for Tactical Medicine has trained more than 7,000 instructors.
Earlier, Belousov’s deputy, Anna Tsivileva, the niece of Russia’s “president,” said that almost all wounded Russian soldiers return to the war after rehabilitation, noting the increasing effectiveness of treatment and evacuation measures on the battlefield. In most cases, she said, first aid is provided within the first 10 minutes, first medical treatment within 40-60 minutes, and qualified surgical treatment 2-3 hours after a wound.
