What should the draftee know if he is in need of medical examination at the military registration and enlistment office?

The older generation, who served in the Soviet era, sincerely believes that it is the army that educates a weak man from a weak young man. However, judging by the information coming from the media, the modern army is increasingly becoming the cause of the disability of a teenager (or even death!). Therefore, today's youth are trying to find any loophole in order to avoid getting into the ranks of recruits, and the first thing that comes to mind is to "slash", thanks to the medical board.

The medical board in the military registration and enlistment office is one of the main stages of a short-lived journey from the doors of the recruiting station to taking the oath. Having received the summons in his hands, the draftee must immediately appear where indicated. The medical board of seven doctors (at least) must make its verdict about whether the young man is fit or not. Therefore, for a visit to the military registration and enlistment office, you should carefully prepare, collect all available information, conclusions of doctors and confirm the existing diseases with official documents. Otherwise, with today's total shortage in the ranks of the Russian army, the medical board recognizes you are fit even in the absence of any limb.

The medical commission at the military commissariat obliges to visit the following doctors: therapist, surgeon, psychiatrist, neurologist, otolaryngologist, oculist, dentist (and a doctor of other specialization if necessary). Each specialist will ask standard questions, listen to complaints and make corresponding entries in the medical examination sheet. It is important to pay attention to whether all of your complaints are recorded by a doctor. No matter how insignificant they may seem, the law obliges the medical worker to record everything, down to frank delirium and nonsense.

After the medical commission has been passed through the draftee, the military registration and enlistment office, or rather the head physician, assigns to it the category of fitness (on the basis of all the certificates and conclusions of the doctors). There are five such "final" categories:

A - means that you are fit for military service and are subject to conscription in the army;

B - under the call and are fit for service in the army with minor restrictions;

В - a category that exempts from conscription due to limited access to military service;

G - is assigned if the conscript is temporarily not fit for military service (with a delay of six months);

D - absolutely not fit for military service (complete release from any military duty).

The medical commission in the military registration and enlistment office recognizes young people as unsuitable, temporarily unfit for work and limited to military service in the presence of such diseases as bronchial asthma, tuberculosis, epilepsy, hypertension, blood diseases, stomach ulcer, chronic kidney disease, cancer, fractures, congenital malformations , Reduced visual acuity (and other eye diseases), deafness, mental disorders, HIV infection.

As a rule, the medical commission in the military registration and enlistment office is not interested in discovering new diseases. And it may be wrong to determine the exact category of the recruit's suitability. For example, it is impossible to detect such severe diseases as a stomach ulcer or a concussion on the primary commission. Therefore, the draftee must file an application for medical examination in a medical institution. The doctor has no right to refuse the discharge of the referral, but if he does not consider the request to be justified, you can complain to the chairman of the conscription commission. And if he remains deaf, then your right is to order an independent and unbiased military medical examination, however, this survey will already be paid.

Now you know how to make sure that the military commissariat, medical board and other components of the future warrior's life do not become a problem!