DISASTER MEDICINE No. 2 •2026

doi: 10.33266/2070-1004-2026-2

SAFETY IN EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENT

Original article

Medical Treatment Organizations of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency Involved in Providing Specialized Medical Care, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Military Personnel – Participants of Special Military Operation

Ratmanov M.A.1

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Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russian Federation

UDC 613.67:614.2:616-036.82

P. 5-12

 

Summary. The objectives of this study are to analyze and summarize the most significant organizational issues of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency’s (FMBA of Russia, the Agency) medical treatment organizations (MTOs) participating in the overall system of providing specialized medical care, treatment, and rehabilitation to military personnel participating in the Special Military Operation; and to outline areas for further improvement of their functioning.
Research database, materials, and methods. The study was conducted using 25 MTOs of the Agency, some of whose hospital beds were used to provide specialized medical care, treatment, and rehabilitation to wounded and sick military personnel in 2023–2025.
Research materials include regulatory legal and other management documents defining the procedures and specific features of organizing the provision of specialized medical care, treatment, and rehabilitation to military personnel participating in the Special Military Operation in FMBA of Russia medical treatment organizations. Survey reports on the work of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency of Russia’s MTOs, which allocated hospital beds for the provision of specialized medical care, treatment, and rehabilitation of wounded and sick military personnel, completed by medical specialists from the leadership of such MTOs; scientific publications on the research topic.
Research methods include content analysis, statistical and analytical methods; the author’s personal experience in managing and coordinating the activities of the Agency’s MTOs participating in the general system of medical evacuation support for military personnel participating in the Second Military Operations.
Research results and analysis. The article presents summarized data from the Federal Medical and Biological Agency of Russia on the use of hospital beds by the MTO of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency of Russia for military personnel participating in the Second Military Operations in 2023–2025, as well as a set of key measures ensuring the functioning of the MTOs in providing specialized medical care, treatment, and rehabilitation to patients primarily with combat-related surgical trauma.

Key words: Federal Medical and Biological Agency, hospital beds, medical treatment facilities, military personnel participating in the Special Military Operation, patients, rehabilitation, specialized medical care, Special Military Operation, treatment, wounded

For citation: Ratmanov M.A. Medical Treatment Organizations of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency Involved in Providing Specialized Medical Care, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Military Personnel – Participants of Special Military Operation. Meditsina Katastrof = Disaster Medicine. 2026;2:5-12 (In Russ.). doi:10.33266/2070-1004-2026-2-5-12

 

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The material was received 27.04.26; the article after peer review procedure 04.05.26; the Editorial Board accepted the article for publication 16.06.26
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