In the work of a local medical holding unit a great role is assigned to the evacuation sections which carry out the admission of wounded and their transportation to the rear hospitals. The specificity of its tasks exerts influence on the scheme of its deployment and functional principles. The results of these studies, as well as the experience of military medical exercises prove that is rational to deploy evacuation (rail) section at a single site. The important elements in the work of evacuation section are: medical triage and its readiness for immediate medical care.