FMBA, the Ministry of Health and Federal Medical and Biological Agency of Russia, has confirmed that it will be sending a mobile hospital to Crimea from Rostov-on-Don in order to improve the situation with the provision of medical assistance amid power outage to the peninsula's population.

According to Tass, Russia's Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova made the decision to send a mobile hospital to Crimea along with the FMBA. The mobile clinic has all the necessary medical equipment's for treatment and diagnostics to provide medical assistance in the areas where power shortages is experienced, according to the ministry's spokesman Oleg Salagay.

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On Monday, the mobile hospital is scheduled to arrive in Kerch from Rostov-on-Don. According to the Ministry of Health, the most critical patients being treated in ICUs in Crimea will be airlifted by ambulance to FMBA federal clinics if necessary. The ministry also confirmed that the patients in the region are approximately 57 now.

A state of emergency has been declared by the Crimean authorities after a power failure in the peninsula on the night of Nov. 22. The move was as a result of series of bombings that undermined the power transmission line that supports Kakhovskaya-Dzhankoi and Kakhovskaya-Ostrovsky, from where electricity is supplied to the region of Ukraine.

Svetlana Borodulin, the new Minister of Fuel and Energy of the Republic of Crimea, said on Saturday that the energy supply of the Republic has returned to normal.

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