Doctors of the Kirov Military Academy told about their work in the special operation zone

Doctors from the special medical unit of the Kirov Military Medical Academy of the Southern Group of Forces, on average, perform about 80 high-tech operations per month in the special military operation zone. They spoke about the progress of their work and its features on July 29.

Currently, for the first time, such an expanded staff of doctors of narrow specialties is so close to their patients that the wounded no longer have to travel independently to other regions to receive qualified medical care.

"In fact, our main task is to bring specialized medical care closer to the wounded and provide the fastest treatment —recovery and return to service," said Vasily Koval, head of the special medical unit at the Kirov Military Medical Academy, Lieutenant Colonel of the medical Service, to Alexander Safiulin, a correspondent for Izvestia.

According to him, five candidates of medical sciences and three more applicants for this academic title are currently working in the detachment. Koval noted the importance of transferring the experience gained in the special operation zone to the internship students.

One of the surgeons, head of the transfusiology group, Senior medical service Lieutenant Vladimir Potemkin, has been working in a combat—ready area for only three months - he completed his residency in 2024. Potemkin noted that the main motivation for work is the desire to help the Motherland.

"This is a tremendous surgical experience. As our senior teachers used to say, if you want to be a surgeon, follow the army! <...> The work here is intensive, it is [conducted] for a day without leaving the table," said the surgeon.

Potemkin stressed that sometimes he and his colleagues have to perform extensive surgical interventions, and also added that now they get to the operating table in a shorter time — two hours after being injured.

An ophthalmologist at the Kirov Military Medical Academy shared that most often Russian servicemen come to him with shrapnel wounds to their eyes and foreign objects in them. According to him, these are severe injuries, but there are still chances of restoring vision.

Another doctor, Yuri Anankin, head of the neurosurgical group of the special medical unit of the Kirov Military Medical Academy, said that he and his colleagues provide patients with routine surgical treatment, which is carried out in a delayed period, several months after the operation. For example, as Anankin summed up, doctors of the published detachment can even perform plastic surgery to eliminate bone defects in the skull or repair damaged nerve trunks.

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