[The results and aims of Russian Federation Armed Forces medical service activities]

In the past year the main efforts were concentrated on bringing the medical service staff and structure into line with the Armed Forces fighting staff and the problems being solved. The medical forces and means of permanent battle readiness have gotten the further development. The system providing the medical equipment and property was subjected to radical reorganization. The normative-and-law basis of military health service was improved and the licensing of military medical institutions' activities including those stationed outside the Russian Federation was conducted. The significant result of 2006 was the approval of a Conception of military medical service regular policy, the main principles of which are the openness, the scientific substantiation of quantitative and qualitative characteristics of medical staff and the rise of military medical service prestige. In 2007 the main aims of medical service are connected with the problems of battle and mobilization readiness, organizational construction, treatment-and-prophylactic support, troop sanitary-and-epidemiological safety, regular work and military medical education.