Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko highly appreciated the organization of medical care for the victims of the incident at Nizhnekamskneftekhim.
He told reporters about this the day before during a visit to the children's polyclinic in the residential complex "Volzhskie Prostory" in Kazan.
"Everything was done on time, [there was] an increase in the forces and means of ambulance crews, additional resources were allocated from the regional disaster medicine center," he said.
The Minister noted that everything was organized immediately and in full. "Now there are, of course, serious patients. But doctors do everything. I hope that everything will end well," he said.
According to Murashko, four of the most seriously injured were taken to Moscow and connected to artificial ventilation. Upon arrival in the capital, helicopters were already waiting for them. Everything was organized immediately, Mikhail Murashko emphasized.