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October 3, 2017

Instructors of the School of Medicine - participants in the National Meeting on Measles Disease

Instructors of the School of Medicine - participants in the National Meeting on Measles Disease

On September 28, 2017 in Kiev, the National Meeting was held with regional coordinators - deputy heads of structural units on health issues of the regional state administrations, regional pediatricians, immunologists and epidemiologists.The meeting was conducted by specialists of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in conjunction with the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in Ukraine and the WHO Office in Ukraine. The meeting was devoted to the problem of the prevalence of measles and the development of an action plan of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine to organize the preparation and conducting of additional measures to immunize the population against this infection.

The School of Medicine of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University as a part of the delegation of Kharkiv region was presented at the meeting by Candidate of Medicine, Associate Professor of the Department of General and Clinical Immunology and Allergology, Deputy Chief Physician for Polyclinic Work of the Kharkiv Regional Children's Clinical Hospital No. 1, main freelance specialist in children's immunology of the Health Department of Kharkiv Regional State Administration, Olexii Mykolaiovych Savvo.