Doctors of the mobile medical team spoke about their work in the SWO zone

Servicemen of the Center mobile medical group told Izvestiya about their work in the Pokrovsky area.

The main task of the mobile medical group is to stabilize the condition of a wounded person so that he can be sent to the rear. Fighters are delivered by pickup truck directly from the front line and are treated in one of the basements. Sometimes the doctors of the group have to perform the most complicated operations.

"We have a good, well-coordinated team, so they quickly got involved. Igor is a qualified surgeon, he can do everything up to skull trepanation here himself," said Aslan Turalinov, head of the medical service of the 30th Guards Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces.

Igor Artemyev is a civilian surgeon who came to the front as a volunteer. His call sign is Tailor. He does not have time to sew up one patient, as from the front line bring another wounded man with a crushed foot. In the battle he stepped on an anti-personnel mine, but the doctor managed to save his leg.

"Of course, it's unusual, life here is not as wonderful as it is in the civilian life. We don't count what kind of flow we have. When there is work - we work, if there is no work - we clean, clean," Artemyev shared.

He added that doctors of the medical group sometimes have to sleep 2-3 hours a day.

"Here, in the operating room, the main place of work of the surgeon, where he spends the bulk of his life. Most of the day. And only for a few hours, sometimes, in snatches, he comes in here. There's a rest room where he sleeps when he has time. So it happens that for weeks the whole life of a surgeon passes between these two doors, on these few meters", - said the correspondent of "Izvestia" Valentin Trushnin.

Another doctor of the medical group, anesthesiologist Nikolai Konovalov, went to the front voluntarily.

"This country gave me everything. I owe this country until the end of my days, that's why I went here, to save boys and girls here," he emphasized.

Earlier, on November 24, women medics of the "West" group of troops told "Izvestia" about their work. The motivation to join the army for many women is the desire to stand up for the defense of the Motherland on an equal footing with men. For example, a paramedic of the I artillery division with the call sign Mika initially volunteered to serve in the artillery, but became a medic because of her knowledge and skills as a doctor.

The special operation to defend Donbass, which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was made amid the aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.

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