2.1. INTRODUCTION
All-Russian Service for Disaster Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation is an organizational and functional sector of the health care system of the Russian Federation intended for the organization and implementation of health-care services when implementing an emergency response in peacetime.
It performs its tasks in close cooperation with the management bodies of other branches of the system (health care provision, sanitary-hygienic and anti-epidemic activities, protection of motherhood and childhood, education, etc.).