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Belarus at the forefront of vaccination The European Immunization Week will be held in 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...

Most common pathology of thyroid gland is hypothyroidism In Belarus, more than 30 children and adolescents diagnosed with thyroid cancer undergo surgery annually. Among adults, about one thousand are operated every year. According to Belarusian doctors, this figure is constant year on year. The incidence of thyroid cancer is the United States and France is the highest. The most common pathology of the thyroid gland is hypothyroidism, in which the thyroid body produces an insufficient amount of...

Within a day, patients to be able to pass number of diagnostic examinations New approach to emergency treatment. Brief therapy unit opened at the emergency hospital. There, patients will stay from a couple of hours to a day. During this time, specialists will conduct a series of examinations, from test results to MRI, to determine whether the patient needs further hospitalization or can receive outpatient care. Up to 25 people will be able to undergo diagnostics there at the same time. This is...

Operation lasted 1.5 hour and was successful For the first time, an operation was performed in Minsk to correct a heart defect of a newborn child weighing a little more than one kilogram. The baby was born ten weeks early. The doctors of the Republican Center for Pediatric Surgery operated on such a tiny patient for the first time. The doctors eliminated the narrowing of the pulmonary artery using a minimally invasive method. The operation lasted an hour and a half and was successful. The surgeons...

Tashkent plans to send more students to Belarus to study medicine Uzbek doctors plan to learn from the experience of their Belarusian colleagues. This was agreed in Minsk by the heads of the two ministries of health. In particular, doctors from Uzbekistan are interested in cancer control methods, pharmaceutical ...

Prevention of infectious diseases becoming increasingly important with population migration increase Today the Ambassy of Russia donated to Belarusian hospitals 100,000 doses of live measles vaccines produced in the Russian Federation. Last year, 259 measles cases were reported in our country. Almost half of them are adults. These are mostly imported cases. More than 73% of people were not vaccinated. Today, the fight against infections and the prevention of infectious diseases are becoming increasingly...

... preparations to grow by $10 mln. in 2019 Detection of early oncology stages and individual cancer treatment was discussed today at the National oncology scientific and practical center. Purchases of target preparations this year will grow by $10 mln. The medicines can destroy a cancer tumor point-wise, without a negative influence on adjacent organs. Notwithstanding intensive development of cancer screening in Belarus, 50% of the cases are detected only at final stages. The Health Ministry plans to improve ...

Pilot project «personal consulting room» launched at web pages of Belarusian out-patient hospitals A pilot project «personal consulting room» has been launched at web pages of Belarusian out-patient hospitals. Anyone may create its personal record and examine his or her medical history – results of analysis and X-ray shadow-graph. As of now, the on-line service has been launched at two hospitals of the capital of Belarus. IT technologies keep on being actively introduced in medical centers. The...

Funds for purchase of ultrasound equipment allocated by Gomel Region Executive Committee New diagnostic and surgery opportunities have appeared in the Gomel Regional Hospital. By the 75th anniversary, the institution received four modern ultrasound units of expert and high class. Funds for the purchase, which is more than 700 thousand rubles, were allocated by regional executive committee. One of the devices was installed in the emergency room. New technology has made it possible to use not only...

Grants to support research in various fields, help improve quality of education More than a hundred representatives of science, education, health service and culture will receive grants from the President of Belarus. They will support research in the field of physics, biology, chemistry, agriculture. They will also help improve the quality of school and university education. In addition, almost 230 representatives of creative teams will be supported by the President’s special fund. Grants were...