СТАНОВЛЕННЯ І РОЗВИТОК ВІЙСЬКОВО-МЕДИЧНОЇ СЛУЖБИ ЧЕРВОНОЇ АРМІЇ У ДРУГІЙ СВІТОВІЙ ВІЙНІ

Abstract

The article reflects the impact of the Second World War on the process of forming the military medical service of the USSR, of which Ukraine was a part at that time. It was shown how medical support was changed in different periods of the war, how military-medical education and science developed, approaches to providing medical assistance in combat conditions, system of medical-evacuation support was improved, material-technical base was developed, and sanitary transport and aviation, medical institutions were developed. Staffed in peacetime, they had insufficient staff, property and transportation for the war. No uniform principles for the provision of medical assistance for civil and military medicine were introduced, which led to differences in the treatment of the wounded. The experience gained by the medical service of the Soviet-Finnish war gave much value for military surgery. The problem of primary surgical treatment of a gunshot wound with the prohibition of suturing immediately after treatment was solved, and this principle was applied throughout the Second World War. It is proved that the Second World War gave a powerful impetus for the development of military medicine, its science, technology and education, increased staffing due to the reorganization of military medical and medical education. The bed fund increased, the logistics were improved, the fronts received sanitary regiments, and the armies - auto-sanitary companies, a system of medical and evacuation support with emergency evacuation was formed. Conducted medical events and measures returned to the ranks of the army 72.3% of wounded and 90.6% of patients. Military medicine has received invaluable combat experience, which has given a powerful impetus to national science, technology and education.