On this holiday, with tears in our eyes, we invite you to remember how Soviet doctors brought the Great Victory closer.
Orderlies carried dozens, even hundreds of soldiers off the battlefield.
In 1941, immunologists developed a polyvaccine against cholera, typhoid fever, tetanus, two types of paratyphoid, and two types of dysentery. They also established the production and mass use of other vaccines for soldiers and civilians.
Nikolai Burdenko, the Chief Surgeon of the Red Army, not only trained doctors but personally performed thousands of operations from 1941 to 1945.
Doctors used innovative approaches — Burdenko tested antibiotics in field conditions, and for localized anesthesia, they applied the method invented by Alexander Vishnevsky.
Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky noted that hospitals and medical battalions were the main source of troop reinforcements — after all, doctors and nurses returned to duty 72.3% of the wounded and 90.6% of the sick soldiers and officers.
We will always remember this and always be grateful to our ancestors.