"The new medical institution was handed over by specialists of the Military Construction Complex of the Russian Ministry of Defense in the city of Vladikavkaz," the message says.

It is noted that the medical institution will provide primary specialized medical care.

It is equipped with modern high-tech equipment, including digital fluorographic and X-ray machines, computed tomography, electrocardiograph and ultrasound diagnostic system.

The Ministry of Defense said that "the medical center includes a surgical and therapeutic department, infectious and pulmonary rooms, departments of functional diagnostics, emergency care and radiation diagnostics, as well as a clinical diagnostic laboratory."

On December 25, it was reported that the military personnel of the Southern Military District began to deploy a mobile hospital in Simferopol to treat patients with coronavirus.