“In accordance with the president’s instructions, Moscow’s healthcare will mobilize all the necessary capacities to fight the coronavirus. Both federal and regional clinics, including private medical organizations, are included in this work, ”the press service of the Mayor of Moscow quoted Sobyanin as saying.
According to him, the work is very difficult and difficult from the point of view of staff training, his moral attitude to difficult work, the restructuring of the premises themselves, logistics, the movement of patients, equipping with the necessary equipment.
“Nevertheless, such work is carried out almost round the clock,” he said.
The mayor’s press service reported that building No. 6 of the city clinical hospital (GKB) named after S.I. Spasokukotsky redesigned for hospitalization of patients with coronavirus.
Sobyanin said that the redesigned medical building of the hospital is planned to be opened for the treatment of those infected with coronavirus on April 13, reports RIA Novosti.
“Thousands of people work at facilities, one of them is the Spasokukotsky hospital, one of the leading Moscow clinics. They will re-equip a large building that can accommodate up to 450 patients ... On April 7, all repairs must be completed, and on April 13 (doctors) they will be ready to receive patients, ”Sobyanin said.
Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin noted that a restriction and self-isolation regime was introduced for residents in Moscow and the region, which is a justified and necessary measure "for the huge multi-million dollar agglomeration that was the first to encounter the spread of coronavirus."
On March 25, Sobyanin announced that Moscow was "at the beginning of the peak of this disease."
According to data as of April 1, 2777 cases of coronavirus infection were registered in Russia, 190 people recovered, 24 died.
Most infected are in Moscow (1880), Moscow Region (134), St. Petersburg (125) and the Komi Republic (54).