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... Belarus on 24-30 April. This year, the campaign will celebrate the "vaccine heroes" who contribute in many ways to protecting lives through vaccination. The major objective of the campaign is to raise awareness of the benefits of vaccination for health and wellbeing throughout life. Belarus is at the forefront of vaccination. Immunization helps make considerable progress in reducing the threat of vaccine-preventable diseases.

30% of citizens do sports as at the start of 2019 Every fourth Belarusian engages in regular sports and physical activity, according to the Belarusian Statistics Committee report timed to World Health Day. The number of such people is growing with women prevailing. The percentage of citizens who do sports is 30%; among the villagers, 16% regularly take exercises. According to the household sample survey, 27% of Belarusians aged 16 years and ...

There are only about 3 thousand such devices in the whole world Belarusian National Science and Practice Oncology center got a new unique device. The gamma-knife can neutralize an encephaloma with punctual radiation. The sound tissues remain intact. There are only about 3 thousand such devices in the whole world. Russia has only 4 of them. Belarus has the latest model. The operation is held under local anesthesia, from 40 minutes to 4 hours, depending on the complicasy of the case.

Belarus summed up the results of the charitable action «Knitted by good» World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is celebrated on October 14. It was created to draw attention to the problems arising in the provision of social, spiritual and medical assistance to terminally ill people. Belarus summed up the results of the charitable action «Knitted by good», during which people knitted small squares that later became a large mosaic.

Over 200 thousand liters of donor blood collected in Belarus every year June 14 is the World Blood Donor Day. Annually, more than two hundred thousand liters of donor blood and one hundred thousand liters of plasma are collected in Belarus. Most often the donor blood is required when performing high-tech surgeries. In total, there are 95 thousand blood donors in Belarus, and over the last two years the number has increased by 10 thousand people. Today, unpaid blood donation actions are taking place...

WHO welcomes draft decree on regulation of tobacco products, electronic cigarettes in Belarus The World Health Organization welcomed the development of a draft decree on state regulation of tobacco products and smoking electronic systems. The main initiatives of the document are equating electronic cigarettes with conventional cigarettes and increasing ...