In the Irkutsk region, mobile medical teams and the mobile consultative diagnostic center Academician Fyodor Uglov continue to work, helping residents of remote areas get consultations from specialists. Last year alone, doctors examined tens of thousands of people, including veterans, home front workers, children and residents at home, and some patients were referred for further examination and hospitalization.
The mobile teams included doctors of various specialties: a cardiologist, neurologist, endocrinologist, urologist, ophthalmologist, audiologist, and ultrasound diagnostics doctors.Among those who received specialist consultations were 220 World War II veterans, 1,200 home front workers, 79 disabled veterans of the Great Patriotic War, 86 citizens who survived the Siege of Leningrad, 100 combat veterans, and another 209 people were examined at home by specialists.
In 2014, the Ministry of Health of the Irkutsk Region organized 27 visits by medical teams to the districts of the Angara region to examine children. 106 specialist doctors were dispatched - pediatric surgeons, neurologists, endocrinologists, ophthalmologists, dentists, psychiatrists. Medical and consultation assistance was provided to 16,864 children, including 1,038 children in their first year of life and 9,631 children from the category of children left without parental care and orphaned children. Over the past year, 723 children were referred for additional examination to regional medical institutions, and 428 for inpatient treatment.
In addition, for medical consultations and examinations of the region's residents, the mobile consultative and diagnostic center "Academician Fyodor Uglov" operates, one of five mobile consultative and diagnostic centers of JSC "Russian Railways" based on a train ("polyclinic on wheels"). Last year, the "polyclinic on wheels" center made ten working trips to twenty-four municipal districts of the Irkutsk Region. In total, during its operation in 2014, 10,586 people were examined. Of these, 1,343 people were referred for hospitalization to municipal and state healthcare institutions. Over all five years of its operation, the specialized train made 58 working trips, and the doctors of the consultative and diagnostic center saw more than 64.3 thousand patients.
According to materials from the press service of the Irkutsk administration.