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Out-patient clinic

The out-patient clinic (Latin of ambulatorius – walking, mobile) – treatment and prevention facility which is intended for rendering extra hospital medical care and has no more than 5 medical positions.

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  • Out-patient clinic ship – one of functional divisions of medical aid station of the ships of Navy in which perform inspection of staff provide medical care and carry out medical appointments as the coming patient;
  • Out-patient clinic of medical aid station – one of functional divisions of medical aid station of military unit in which perform inspection of staff provide medical care and carry out medical appointments as the coming patient;
  • Out-patient clinic mobile – one of structural divisions of hospital (large local, regional or regional) in which give extra hospital treatment-and-prophylactic help by departure to rural settlements, field camps and on places of distant-pasture livestock production.
 
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