[Unflagging attention to the military component of medical service]

The article analyzes the causes of unsettled problems of troops elements of medical service, the directions toward optimization of there function. The most important factors of the effective work of troops elements of medical service are prophylaxis of widespread diseases, traumas and poisoning among Army and Navy personnel, strengthening of the sanitary epidemiologic control, early and active diagnosis, improvement of the prophylactic medical examination, quality increase of diagnosis and treatment activities. Is emphasized that up to 80% of ill servicemen must complete there stationary treatment in the troops medical institutions. From the point of health protection of servicemen the practical importance of medical post as a centre of diagnosis and treatment in troops is increasing, its readiness to provide emergency medical care in any conditions is growing too. Is given attention to necessity to re-equip the medical service of airborne troops, forming the main part of the Mobile Forces, with mobile medical complex, to increase quantity of providing medical care in the units, to reconsider the structure of troops medical staff, to expand it by surgeons and medical personnel.