Russia: a deficiency of harnesses and bandages

Roszdravnadzor ordered pharmacies to report weekly on the presence of dressing, hemostatic agents and hemostatic harnesses. Information will need to be provided since September 28. The requirement is associated with a shortage of such medical devices, Russian media write.

In the list of consumables “Particularly acute needs”: medical tourniquet, medical collagen sponge, individual dressing bags. All of them are absent or “short -lived appear in the pricens of wholesale organizations.” In addition, a stock of sterile medical napkins, gloves, bandages, cotton wool, alcohol napkins and syringes is needed.

In the meantime, it turned out that the dressing materials were not enough for the Russian army. A video appeared in Russian telegram channels where mobilized they say that they will have to “provide themselves to their own.” The representative of the military unit clarifies that the draftees will need the peroxide of hydrogen and burning.