An air mobile hospital of the Russian Emergency Ministry’s Tsentrospas unit has begun operation in Beirut ravaged by a major explosion on Monday, the ministry’s press service told TASS.
Russian rescuers took less than 12 hours to deploy the hospital at a stadium near the emergency zone.
The Russian unit features various professionals, while the hospital is operating autonomously and can stay like that up to 30 days straight. It can receive up to 200 people a day and have beds for 50 patients. The ministry clarified that the hospital has an ICU, operating theatre, diagnosis and consultation units as well as ultrasound, X-ray and EKG departments and a blood lab. The hospital is equipped for the most complicated surgeries.
Source : Tass
