The leader ship of military medical services in the Great Patriotic War period (to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory)

Abstract

High rates in the medical service works during the Great Patriotic War were achieved primarily due to the satisfactory organization of medical support for military operations and troops, in their leadership of which the leading role belonged to the heads of the medical service and the chief medical specialists of the Red Army and the Navy, as well as to the chief medical specialists of fronts, fleets and armies. During the war the main problems of the troops medical supply organization, wounded and sick treatment, as well as a number of sanitary and hygienic and anti-epidemic issues (the system of step-by-step treatment of the wounded and patients with evacuation to destination; gunshot wounds, burns, frostbites treatment, blood transfusion questions, etc.) were successfully solved under the leadership. During the war the many thousands of military doctors work was led by savants, organizers of health, and specialists with enormous knowledge, talent and i nexhaustible diligence.