Strategic Missile Forces Medical Service celebrates 60th anniversary

The system of medical support in the Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) was formed, considering the specifics of the troops’ organizational and staff structure and their deployment areas, the specifics of service by personnel. In August 1960, a military command body was created - the Strategic Missile Forces’ medical service. In 1963-1964 the Central Military Clinical Hospital of the Strategic Missile Forces was formed, hospitals were reorganized into military hospitals. New military hospitals, polyclinics, medical centers, health resorts, pioneer camps, etc. were built. Experienced tactical and special exercises were regularly conducted in the troops to work out organizing medical and evacuation measures. In 1997, when the military units of the Strategic Missile Forces, the Military Space Forces, and the Rocket and Space Defense Troops were united, the grouping of forces and means of the medical service increased. In reforming the Armed Forces and reducing the Strategic Missile Forces, the system of medical support was rebuilt and improved. In 2010, the governing body of the medical service of the Strategic Missile Forces was liquidated, military hospitals of missile formations were reassigned to district military hospitals as their branches and structural units. In 2013, the medical service as a governing body for the organization of medical support for the military department was restored.

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