Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Russian doctors and nurses sent to Italy




The Russians are instantly recognisable because they have their own distinctive PPE: white hazmat suits with blue stripes. Photograph: Anna Bonalume

The sprawling trade fair and exhibition centre on the outskirts of Bergamo, the Italian city hardest hit by coronavirus, is now a field hospital. Instead of pavilions and stands there are 142 beds, only 38 of them occupied.

Inside the hospital’s red zone, where the sickest patients are treated, there are almost as many Russian medical staff as patients: 32 military doctors and nurses and eight interpreters, all sent by Moscow in a controversial aid gesture….


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