1602nd Military clinical hospital celebrates the 75th anniversary.

The article is devoted to the 75th anniversary of the the 1602nd Military clinical hospital. The history of the hospital is overview. The authors covered the establishment and main periods of the development of this large medical facility of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Modern state and possibilities of a hospital as a therapeutic, preventive and research institution.

[Towards the problem of necessity to reduce the medical evacuation stages in conditions of local wars and armed conflicts]. / K voprosu o neobkhodimosti sokrashcheniia étapov meditsinskoi évakuatsii v usloviiakh lokal'nykh voin i vooruzhennykh konfliktov.

The article is devoted to the review of modern opinions concerning the experience of military operation medical support in conditions of local wars and military conflicts. On the base of analysis of medical assistance rendered to the wounded and casualties in Republic of Chechnya the advantages and defects of different approaches are discussed. The experience in rendering assistance to the casualties in the Armed Forces of NATO countries during the local wars for the last decades is discussed. It is shown that the optimal variant of organization of treatment-and-evacuation measures during the local armed conflicts and wars is the two-stage scheme of evacuation: the first medical aid--the qualified (specialized) medical aid.