The first patients from the plant had landed in Moscow soon after dawn on Sunday, April 27. They had been met at Vnukovo Airport by doctors clad in PVC aprons and protective suits, and buses with seats sheathed in polyethylene. The specialists of Hospital Number Six—a six-hundred-bed facility reserved for treatment of the nuclear workers of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building and home to two floors dedicated to radiation medicine—had cleared the entire department in preparation for their arrival.
