In Belarus, medics are massively called to military commissariats

Belarusian doctors have begun to receive “mobilization notices”.

DW reported about this.

After the announcement of mobilization in Russia, the Ministry of Defense of Belarus began to check the data of Belarusian conscripts.

Summonses for meetings are being actively handed over to doctors as well. Doctors and nurses, both men and women, are called to military commissariats.

The term of military training is from 10 days. The military commissariat also specifies sizes of clothes and shoes of medical workers. It is known about the cases when entire departments of medics are assigned to a military unit.

Several people confirmed to DW on condition of anonymity that the data verification of medical workers was indeed being carried out in Belarus.

DW spoke with Lidia Tarasenko, the coordinator of the Medical Solidarity Fund, which was created to help Belarusian doctors who had suffered from repressions, about who and why they were summoned to the military commissariats and what threats the doctors faced from receiving the “mobilization notices”.

“We don’t know for sure how many doctors have received summonses, but they come in all cities and villages, starting from large polyclinics in the capital, ending with the smallest district hospitals,” Lidia Tarasenko said.

According to her, people are called to meetings and given so-called “mobilization notices”, that is, doctors receive instructions on where they should appear in the event of a mobilization announcement.

“Receiving the order imposes certain obligations, these people will not be able to leave the country during mobilization. Also, courses on military field surgery are currently held on the basis of the Belarusian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education,” notes the coordinator of the Fund.

Lidia Tarasenko adds that summonses for medical workers come to their workplaces, being dropped in the mailbox. Some people are visited by the Military Commissariat employees at their place of residence, while others are simply sent an SMS with a demand to attend the military commissariat.

In November, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the military of Belarus was providing Russians with “fraternal assistance” – they handed over individual first-aid kits, unloading vests and other equipment.