From September 22 to 30, 2014, a team of doctors from Irkutsk will work in Tofalaria, including a pediatric surgeon, pediatric cardiologist, urologist and andrologist, neurologist, obstetrician gynecologist, and ultrasound specialist. They will examine adults and children, and provide preventive and routine checkups to monitor disease progress. The report also describes how medical care is organized in remote villages and how many residents have already been examined this year.

From September 22 to 30, 2014, a team of doctors from Irkutsk will be working in Tofalaria. The team includes a pediatric surgeon, a pediatrician (cardiologist), a pediatric urologist-andrologist, a neurologist, an obstetrician-gynecologist, and an ultrasound diagnostics physician. The doctors’ main task is to carry out medical checkups of the adult and child population, as well as preventive and routine examinations to monitor the progression of diseases. This was reported by the Minister of Health of the Irkutsk Region, Nikolai Kornilov, following a meeting with the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Irkutsk Region, Valery Lukin.
According to the minister, this year 24 people from the settlement of Alygzher underwent medical checkups (26 people were subject to examination), 14 residents of the village of Nerha (100% of the planned number), and 26 residents of the village of Verkhnyaya Gutara (100% of the planned number). In addition, 69 children from the settlement of Alygzher (145 are subject to examination) and 51 children from Verkhnyaya Gutara (139 are subject to examination) were examined; medical checkups are planned for 73 children in the village of Nerha.
Trips by the team of doctors to Tofalaria from Irkutsk are carried out annually at the expense of the regional budget. In 2013, 28 air ambulance flights were made, and in the first 6 months of 2014, 13 flights were made.
Primary health care and emergency medical care are provided by the Alygdzher medical outpatient clinic and two feldsher-midwife stations: Nerkhinsky and Verkhne-Gutarsky. Staffing of the outpatient clinic and the feldsher-midwife stations with medical personnel is 100%. The provision of medical personnel per 10,000 population is 90.7%. Specialized medical care is provided by the OGBUZ Nizhneudinsk Central District Hospital, as well as by visiting teams of specialists. Patients are transported to Nizhneudinsk by air, if necessary by air ambulance.
Based on materials from the press service of the Government of the Irkutsk Region.