Shoigu sent military doctors to the Tula region to help with COVID

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu instructed to send more than 100 military doctors to the Tula region to help combat the spread of coronavirus, the department told reporters, TASS reports.

Specialists from the medical units and military medical organizations of the Eastern, Southern and Western military districts, the Northern Fleet, the Strategic Missile Forces and the Airborne Forces will arrive in the region.

As the government of the Tula region reported yesterday, 65 military doctors have been working in the region since June. The authorities asked the Ministry of Defense to send 68 more doctors and 70 nurses; they should arrive by the end of the week. “This is an unprecedented support measure that will allow the region to receive qualified specialists in covid hospitals and maintain the same volume of planned medical care,” said Dmitry Markov, Minister of HEALTH of the region.

On November 1, 256 cases of covid-19 infection were registered in the Tula region , which became the daily maximum. During the entire period of the pandemic, 60.3 thousand cases of infection were registered there, 3476 people died.