The past and future of surgical clinics of the Mikhailovsky clinical hospital («Willie Hospital») of the Kirov Military medical academy

A brief 140-years history of the Mikhailovsky clinical hospital («Willie Hospital») of the Kirov Military Medical Academy is presented. Today the department of military surgery, integrated into the system of emergency medical care, locates in historical building of the Kirov Military Medical Academy, and considered as part of multi-field regional center for the treatment of severe combined injuries, and is the only one injury care center of the first level in the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. The hospital admits on treatment more that one million of severe injured patients annually; many patients with severe injuries are transferred from other regional hospitals. Every year more than two thousands of surgical interventions are performed in the hospital. Next renovation of the building is planned in the near future; it should provide further development of new medical technologies in the Kirov Military Medical Academy.

military-field surgery, treatment of severe combined injuries, history of military medicine in Russia