In the context of combating the spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19 in the Sverdlovsk Region, the number of students of the Ural State Medical University working as volunteers in departments of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing had doubled. Since April 20th, they have been involved not only in Ekaterinburg but also in other cities of the region.

We already have 93 volunteers, and not just in Ekaterinburg. For example, in Nizhny Tagil guy also help to carry out technical work with documents, they are engaged in sanitary-medical education of the population. Our volunteers are involved in Asbest, and from April 20th they began working in Kushva and Serov,” said Mikhail Poroshin, student of the medical and preventive faculty of the USMU. It is possible that volunteers from the Ural State Medical University will soon expand their work geography even more to include Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.

At the same time, more than 470 students of the pediatric and preventive faculties of the Ural State Medical University are employed in medical institutions of Ekaterinburg and the region as junior and secondary medical personnel. Of these, more than a third work at the ER station named after V.F. Kapinos (67), in the Municipal Clinical Hospital No. 40 (65) and in the Central Clinical Hospital No. 1 (42). Future doctors also work in hospitals in Pervouralsk, Berezovsky, Irbit, Bogdanovich and other Sverdlovsk cities.