Overview of emergency

medical assistance
during FIFA World Cup
2018 in Russia
March 2018
 14 June – 15 July 2018 in Russia will be held the
world’s brightest sporting event – FIFA World Cup.
The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be the 21st FIFA World
Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament
contested by the men's national teams of the member
associations of FIFA.
FIFA World
The final tournament will involve 32 national teams,
Cup 2018 which include 31 teams determined through qualifying
competitions and the automatically qualified host
team. A total of 64 matches will be played in 12 venues
located in 11 cities. The final is expected to take place
in Moscow at the Luzhniki Stadium.
 Location
Moscow
Saint-Petersburg
Sochi
Volgograd
Samara
Saransk
Nizhny Novgorod
Ekaterinburg
Rostov on Don
Kazan
Kaliningrad
Central
cluster,
Moscow
The opening match
and the final will
be held in Moscow
in “Luzhniki”

“Otkrytie Arena
Spartak”, Moscow
North-West
Cluster

“Piter-Arena”,
Saint-
Petersburg

“Kaliningrad
Stadium”,
Kaliningrad
Volga Cluster

“Volgograd Arena”

“Kazan Arena”

“Nizhny Novgorod
Stadium”

“Samara Arena”
Volzhsky
cluster

“Mordovia Arena”,
Saransk

Asian cluster

“Ekaterinburg
Arena”
Southern
cluster
“Rostov
Arena”,
Rostov on Don

“Fisht
Stadium”,
Sochi
 There are 11 hospitals in all cities which are included into
the program of preparation for FIFA World Cup - 2018.
They have been chosen on a territorial basis and taking in
account their medical profiles:

Emergency - Ambulance

& -  Emergency medicine

-  Emergency surgery
Healthcare - Traumatology
Facilities In all clusters there will be local emergency teams
(MCHS), ambulances.
MCHS teams will be responsible for the first emergency help
and for evacuating patients to the hospital by air or ground
ambulance.
 –  City clinical hospital of S.P. Botkina, Moscow
–  City ambulance station, Saint-Petersburg
–  Republican Clinical Hospital Ministry of health
Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan
–  Rostov regional clinical hospital, Rostov on Don
–  State Clinical Hospital # 4 , Sochi
List of –  Nizhny Novgorod regional clinical hospital of N.A.
authorized Semashko, Nizhny Novgorod

hospitals –  Kaliningrad regional center for medical prevention and

rehabilitation, Kaliningrad
–  Samara regional clinical hospital named V. D. Seredina,
Samara
–  The Mordovian Republican clinical hospital, Saransk
–  City clinical emergency hospital N25, Volgograd
–  Sverdlovsk regional clinical hospital N 1, Ekaterinburg
 During the FIFA World Cup 2018 the above
mentioned state medical facilities will be a priority
but other private and state medical facilities
will also be available (more than 500 medical
facilities).
Private House-calls / hotel visits will also be available
Healthcare in all clusters.
If you are seriously injured or ill your first step is to
seek treatment at the nearest hospital or doctor or if
you have been involved in an emergency and cannot
get to a hospital call the emergency operations
centre at 03.
 State Clinical
Hospital №1
im.N.I.Pirogova,
Moscow
is specialized in:
emergency medicine,
surgery, neurology,
cardiology, traumatology

Hospital has about 1400

beds, 93 of them are ICU,
448 – therapy, and 36
operations rooms.
 State Clinical
Hospital # 4,
Sochi
is specialized in:
cardio surgery, vascular
surgery, otolaryngology ,
ophthalmology, therapy,
neurology, traumatology.

The main specialties of the

hospital are cardio surgery
including vascular surgery and
neurosurgery.

Hospital has about 700 beds,

12 of them are ICU
City Clinical
Hospital №7,
Kazan

-works 24 hours
-has emergency
department,
inpatient, incl.
ICU, trauma
center
 v  During the FIFA World Cup 2018 in the regions will be
on duty a big MCHS team with medical helicopters
and 3500 doctors with the ground ambulances and
medical units near stadiums.
v The number of doctors and nurses in the medical units in
Medical the airports will be increased.

Staffing issues v  Language courses for the staff of all of the hospitals
which are part of FIFA program is a must. Some of the
hospitals already have doctors who speak English, French,
German, Spanish.
v  There will also be about 15 000 volunteers helping the
sportsmen and guests during the FIFA World Cup
including medical translators.
 All medical facilities are fully equipped to provide wide
range of medical services, but in case patient has to be
transported to his home country it can be arranged
promptly:
Evacuation & ü  As soon as the incident has occurred, the patient will be
attended by MCHS or duty doctor on site.
Air ü Then, he’ll be taken by helicopter or ambulance, depending
ambulance on situation , to the hospital responsible for this cluster.

access ü  There he’ll be provided with all the necessary

treatment. If the evacuation is requested either by patient,
his home country doctor or his insurance, he’ll be stabilized
and prepared for the flight in a very short term.
ü Medical evacuation is possible to any international airport.
AP Companies
wishes all sportsmen and guests of
FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia
successful performance and joyful
attendance with no medical
emergencies.
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