Inflammation is severe

Commanders refuse to recognize the fact of an epidemic of viral pneumonia among draftees in the military units of the Leningrad region. This was reported by 47news.ru.

Meanwhile, the publication reports with reference to sources at the headquarters of the Western Military District, hundreds of soldiers have been delivered to St. Petersburg hospital in St. Petersburg. So, in the 442nd district hospital. Solovyov since the end of November last year had been 996 people. Of these, 293 were delivered from December 15 to 31, and a significant part with a diagnosis of pneumonia. A day with such a diagnosis received 8-10 draftees. Other patients were diagnosed with acute respiratory infections, bronchitis and tonsillitis. Some soldiers have already been discharged.

In the new year, from January 1 to 8, 70 soldiers fell from the military units of one Vsevolozhsk district in the 442nd hospital. In this area, according to 47news.ru, draftees are sick in units located in Agalatov, Garbolov and Toksov. The publication also reports on patients from part in Kamenka, Vyborg district.

Now in this hospital there are no more places for infectious patients, the publication says. In one infectious department with a capacity of 20 beds, 25 people are treated, in the second all 45 beds are occupied, in the third - out of 45 beds, only one free. Some infectious patients are placed in the skin.

The newly delivered conscripts are sent to a hospital in Kronstadt. However, according to the publication, there is also a lack of places in Kronstadt, so the skin department is involved in the treatment of infectious patients.

An ambulance is not called back to the units. As explained in the regional health care committee, thus the military is trying to avoid publicity. According to official statistics, since the beginning of January, only three patients were hospitalized with pneumonia in the Vsevolozhsk district: two children and one elderly person.

One of the sick draftees told 47news.ru that everything is coughing in the barracks, but "only those who have a temperature rise to the hospital." He confirmed that they were not called an ambulance, and they were delivered to the hospital in a military sanitary machine, which "still needs to wait."

According to the mother of one of the patients, for many soldiers the temperature rose to 39 degrees. “There is no doctor in the part, only a paramedic,” the interlocutor added. “Measures are not taken to the last. People are taken to the hospital only when the condition becomes critical. For example, one of the soldiers had a convulsive seizure.”

Meanwhile, at the headquarters of the site, they noticed that this winter the sick is not as much as a year ago. Then the hospitalized had to be laid even on the floor.

Later, the publication quoted the response to its request received from the press service of the district. "The accumulation of military personnel in military medical institutions is due to the fact that during the holidays of extracts were not carried out - they will begin from today," the letter says.

The military claims that "the incidence did not exceed the average annual indicators." What are these indicators and values ​​for this winter is not specified. In addition, the press service assures that there are no patients with pneumonia among those who got into the hospital.

"Among the personnel, vaccination was carried out, the military personnel receive vitamins daily, air recirculators are installed in soldier dormitories, disinfectment measures are carried out, and medical points are provided with antiviral drugs," the military is also said.