A serviceman of the People's Militia of the DPR in Mariupol. File photoMARIUPOL, Apr 12Mariupol hospitals are experiencing a shortage of medicines, including drugs and painkillers for cancer patients. Alexander Melnikov, acting chief physician of the regional intensive care hospital, told reporters about this. «Not all of the medicines are available. There are some drugs that are in rather severe shortage, for example, for those who applied to the clinic with thyroid diseases, there are no certain drugs and there is nothing to replace them. From time to time there are requests for cancer patients to continue chemotherapy, they need strong painkillers, we also do not have these drugs at the moment. lines sporadically, they help as much as they can,» Melnikov said.The military carried a Russian journalist wounded in Mariupol in their arms. According to him, there are also difficulties with calling doctors to their homes. «Now there are from 150 to 200 people in the hospital who are receiving assistance. About 200 more people are on the territory of the hospital because they have nowhere to go,» the doctor said. Human. “The wounded are treated unevenly every day, depending on where the rescue services have advanced, someone is taken out of the basements, someone’s houses are collapsing, and they come here, treat their injuries, provide assistance,” he said. hospital are in a limited number. We work around the clock. Traumatologists, surgeons, neurosurgeons work, some specialists come, there are Russian volunteers, there are specialists from Donetsk,» the acting head said. He said that doctors are currently provided with everything for operational work. «There are problems with the delivery of food, water delivery has been established, there is a large shortage of specialists on the floors. Food is partly supplied by the Ministry of Health, partly through a humanitarian line,» Melnikov said. The doctor said that the dynamics of the work of the medical institution is positive, over the past week a consultative polyclinic has begun to function.
