Work organization of evacuation hospitals in Saratov during the Battle of Stalingrad

The work organization of evacuation hospitals in Saratov during the Stalingrad battle is analyzed. A brief description of the medical issues of the Stalingrad strategic defensive operation is given. The factors that determined the evacuation of a significant number of wounded and sick Red Army soldiers to the medical facilities of the Local evacuation point-45 are indicated. Statistical data are provided on the number of people taken to treatment and sent to other rear hospitals who suffered from the site of the crucial battle of the Great Patriotic and World War II. The importance of using railway, water and motor vehicles for the evacuation of the wounded and sick was noted. The issues of the organization of sanitary and hygienic and antiepidemic work in Saratov and the region in the period of approaching the front, high crowding of the local population and arriving refugees, as well as the constant arrival of ambulance transports are considered. The enormous role of the Saratov Medical Institute staff in medical and consulting work in evacuation hospitals was emphasized. Their high professional training, constant search of non-standard ways of solving complex problems arising in the course of daily clinical activity, allowed to achieve high results in the work of medical institutions, to save the lives of a large number of wounded soldiers and commanders of the Red Army. The contribution and main directions of medical and scientific activity of leading specialists of the medical institute in the considered historical period of time are highlighted.