Russian mobile hospital doctors examine patients in S Ossetia

TSHINVAL, August 29 (Itar-Tass) -- Doctors at a mobile hospital of the
Russian disaster medicine centre Zashchita (Protection) examined more than
1,200 patients in South Ossetia's Leningori district in four days.
The doctors have worked for four days, and more than 300 patients came
to the hospital each day, chief physician Valery Shabanov said.
At the request of the republic's authorities, the specialists of the
Russian centre will remain in the district for two days longer than
initially planned, he said.
The hospital is equipped as a Moscow polyclinic. There are all
appropriate specialists -- a cardiologist, a surgeon, an internist and a
traumatologist. They have diagnostic equipment for gastroskopic and
ultrasonographic studies and all kinds of laboratory tests.
During their work, the doctors had ten video consultations with
leading Moscow clinics.
In one particularly serious case, specialists decided to send a
patient, a child from a local boarding school, to Moscow for an operation.
The hospital is deployed there in the Interdepartmental Humanitarian
Action "Mutual Help, Cooperation and Security" organised by the Russian
Border Guard Service in the republic for the second year. Aside from
providing medical assistance for South Ossetian residents, the
participants brought medicines, food products and books in the republic.
They also organised a campaign "Culture without Borders".
The Border Guard Service's deputy chief Yevgeny Inchin said in the
plans were other humanitarian programmes. It is not a one-time action --
it becomes a system approach, he noted. The situation in the border region
must be stabilised to efficiently solve also other problems, the general
added.