Back in March, Russia’s Armed Forces started planning to address the threat posed to its employees by a possible swine flu pandemic.
But as always planning in Russia is mean less, and usually presented as an attempt to planning.
But information about exactly how the military has set priorities for key personnel hasn’t been released.
The goal is to ensure that no vital operational activities be compromised in the event of a widespread swine flu outbreak.
But groups with higher medical risks have been prioritized in silence.
When the vaccine becomes available, the Russian Armed Forces will vaccinate its own personnel and conscripts rather than use the resources of Russia’s Health Department, which are charged with managing vaccination programs for the general public. But in Russia vaccine is unavailable for general public, so what to expect with vaccination of Russia’s military, especially in breakaway provinces of Georgia, AKA South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
If many people within the Armed Forces nevertheless become ill at the same time, the highest operational commander of Russian Army president Medvedev has carried out a prioritization on how the military will continue to complete its operations to occupy lands of independent countries.
Reviewed by Dr. Ramaz Mitaishvili
