Two Il-76 transport aircraft, which had taken off from the Hmeymim airbase, have landed in Khabarovsk and delivered equipment and personnel of the Russian military hospital. The hospital was performing tasks in Palmyra since the middle of April 2016.

Fifty military medics, who were providing medical support to combined detachment of the International Mine Action Centre of the Russian Armed Forces as well as qualified assistance to Syrian military servicemen and citizens in Palmyra for 1.5 months, have arrived in Russia.

Russian military hospital was installed near Palmyra on April 18. The hospital contained departments of surgery and internal medicine, anesthesiology and reanimation, dental department, department of laboratory diagnosis, X-ray examination, and additional units. 

In total, the Russian medics have provided medical assistance to more than 200 patients, most of them – civilians returning to their houses after enforced escape. The medics have also held 10 surgery operations for heavily injured Syrian soldiers, and more than 20 patients have passed medical treatment course.

Returning of the Russian medical personnel is caused by withdrawal of combined detachment of the International Mine Action Centre of the Russian Armed Forces, which had completed mine clearing tasks in Palmyra and its suburbs. A medical post with 11 Russian military medical specialists continues operating in liberated territories.