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In Aterk, Mardakert region of Nagorno-Karabakh, officers of the Humanitarian Response Centre and military medics of the special-purpose medical unit of the Russian peacekeeping contingent organized a humanitarian-medical action, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday. 

Near the village hospital, military medics deployed a pneumo-frame module - a field medical center for receiving and providing qualified medical care to local residents who were waiting for the arrival of Russian military doctors.

“We have about 1,600 people, together with children and the elderly.  Four doctors: two therapists, two pediatricians.  We seem to be coping with it, but there is a huge need for narrow specialists, especially an ophthalmologist and an ENT doctor, there is simply a catastrophic lack,” said Alek Makyan, head of the rural district hospital in Aterk village.

During the medical reception, the doctors of the special purpose unit provided advisory and qualified medical care to 200 residents of the village. Also, everyone was able to test the body for Covid-19 by passing a PCR test in an expanded laboratory.

“Residents of Aterk settlement have applied for humanitarian aid.  It was decided to be nominated as a part of specialists: an ophthalmologist, an otolaryngologist, a traumatologist, a cardiologist, to provide the residents of this settlement with humanitarian aid, counseling and treatment, ”said the head of the medical unit Marat Khatagov.

In turn, the officers of the humanitarian response centre held an action to distribute food kits, basic necessities, warm clothes and children's toys to large families, internally displaced persons and local residents in need.

“Today, 61 families took part in the action, 30 of them are internally displaced persons, 20 large families with five children and more, the rest of the families found themselves in unfavorable conditions,” said Ruslan Ivanov, a representative of the humanitarian response centre.

In total, during the humanitarian action, seven and a half tons of cargo were transferred, the source said.