The medical profession is one of the oldest in the world, and nowadays it is in demand literally everywhere. Each of us at least once in our lives turned to a doctor for help and treatment. After all, even at the very beginning of a person’s life - at the birth of a baby - doctors are directly involved. And modern healthcare and the efforts of doctors are aimed not only at treating diseases and maintaining human health, but also at its development.
This professional celebration is usually celebrated on state level. Medical workers are congratulated not only by their immediate management, but also by the Minister of Health. The most outstanding and active hospital employees are awarded honorary titles. Awards are given for professionalism, long term work, and publication of works on medicine.
Award ceremonies are also held at the local level. Employees attend a meeting where they are congratulated and given awards. Traditionally, monetary rewards are awarded. Grateful patients, who willingly bring various gifts to the people who helped them, do not forget about the work of doctors. Students have a tradition of filling their glasses with alcohol on this day.
One of the most significant holidays is dedicated to professionals who fight for human life every minute - Medical Worker Day. When did they start celebrating the holiday in Russia?
Medical Worker Day began to be celebrated in 1980, when at the official level, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR approved the procedure for honoring employees of healthcare institutions. IN Russian Federation The holiday is transferred from number to date, so it is celebrated differently every year. It is officially stated that the celebrations take place annually on the third Sunday of June.
The holiday once again confirms the importance of doctors who save lives and take care of the health of other people. The honor is dedicated not only to hospital staff, but also to healthcare workers, including: laboratory technicians, engineers, who invent medical equipment, chemists and biologists who study various strains of viruses and bacteria, etc.
Russia will honor doctors in 2018 on June 17. It is celebrated in every federal district of the country without exception.
Honoring medical workers takes place not only in Russia, but also in other countries. Let's look at the dates on which Medic's Day is celebrated in countries that emerged from the USSR and some other countries of the world.
Neighboring countries such as Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania celebrate the professional holiday of doctors, as well as Russia, on the third Sunday in June, which falls on June 17 in 2018.
In the United States, National Doctor's Day is celebrated and celebrations take place on March 30th. Other countries celebrate Doctor's Day. It was approved by the World Health Organization and is celebrated on October 1 every year.
The significance of the holiday of medicine is invaluable. There are many other days dedicated to specific medical workers (dentists, nurses). Medical Worker's Day is dedicated to all professionals who work in the field of healthcare.
This day is an official occasion to once again thank medical workers for their work. Day medical worker serves as a small reminder that we must recognize the merits of the defenders of our body, who save us from diseases, bring us out of critical condition organism.
Traditionally, on Medical Worker’s Day, all healthcare organizations hold meetings, concerts, conferences, where doctors who have distinguished themselves during the year are awarded, and the main directions are announced further development in improving the performance of institutions.
Local administrations hold ceremonial awards for employees who have made a great contribution to the development of medicine. As incentives, the heads of medical institutions issue bonuses to distinguished staff. They organize holiday concerts where all medical workers gather for general congratulations.
Both current patients and those whose lives were saved express a desire to congratulate doctors on their professional holiday. Congratulations can be conveyed verbally, signed a postcard, come and personally congratulate, or leave congratulations on the hospital website. The main thing is to show attention to employees medical institution. For each of the staff of the medical institution, your congratulations are of great value.
This professional holiday of Belarus is dedicated to all those people who work for the benefit of humanity and create pharmaceutical and microbiological products.
Russia stands in solidarity with its Belarusian colleagues regarding the celebration of Microbiological Industry Day. And here is the Day pharmaceutical industry It is customary to celebrate May 19.
The Day of Workers in the Pharmaceutical and Microbiological Industry in 2020 is celebrated by bacteriologists, biophysicists, biochemists, pharmacologists, epidemiologists and everyone related to this field of activity.
Pharmaceutical industry workers are involved in the study, creation, development, market research, and distribution of pharmaceutical drugs intended to prevent, alleviate, and treat human and animal diseases.
Microbiological industry is a section of the industry in which the production of products is based on the microbiological combination of certain products from different types of non-food material (hydrocarbons of the oil and gas group, wood hydrolysates). In addition, residues from industrial processing of sugar beets, corn, oilseeds and other agricultural crops are used. Workers in this industry are engaged in the production of protein-vitamin concentrated solutions, amino acids, vitamins, fermentation preparations, antibiotics, enterobacterial and viral agents, bacterial fertilizers, as well as products of complex processing of plant raw materials - furfural, xylitol, etc.
In August 2011, during the reform public administration The pharmaceutical industry liquidated the Belbiopharm production association, which then included eighteen enterprises, factories and plants. The concern's responsibilities were transferred to the Department of Pharmaceutical Industry in the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus.
On May 19, 1581, in the Russian Federation (Udelnaya Rus), Prince Ivan IV (the Terrible) promulgated a decree on the opening of the first “royal” pharmacy. The list of goods on display was available only to persons close to the king. And only one hundred and twenty years later, in 1701, thanks to Tsar Peter I the Great, on November 22, a decree appeared allowing private individuals to open pharmacies, but prohibiting the sale of medicines in herbal shops and other similar establishments.
In Belarus, Medical Worker Day 2017 will be celebrated on June 18 - on this day, as well as before and after it, you can congratulate your favorite doctors and thank them for their work and care.
According to the National Statistical Agency, the number of practicing doctors in our country is more than 43 per 10 thousand population, and nursing staff - 132.4 per 10 thousand, respectively. Traditionally, Minsk is best staffed with doctors - there are more than 58 specialists per 10 thousand population.
Just recently, the medical industry faced an acute issue with personnel - there were not enough specialists, especially in the periphery. But in recent years, due to an increase in enrollment in medical universities and the distribution of young specialists, the problem of personnel shortage has been largely solved. And in some specialties that are in demand in the commercial sector, there has even begun to be an oversupply of specialists. According to the Minister of Health of Belarus Valery Malashko, this year
At the same time, many medical specialties the competition remains one of the highest in the country.
Average wages doctors in April approached $500, but on average for healthcare this figure does not yet look so impressive - about $350, which does not prevent medicine from remaining the highest paid industry among all public sector employees in the country.
However, Minsk doctors feel much better off than their colleagues from the provinces - since 2012, the Minsk City Council of Deputies annually allocates funds for additional payments to the salaries of medical workers. More than 11 million rubles are planned for the implementation of this measure in 2017.
Traditionally, Medical Worker's Day is celebrated in Belarus on the third Sunday of June. In 2017 - June 18. This date was inherited by Belarusian doctors from the USSR, where it was introduced back in 1981. It has been preserved in many CIS countries - along with Belarusian doctors, Medical Worker Day on June 18 will be celebrated in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia and Moldova.
Since this is a day off, most health workers celebrate their professional holiday not at their post, but with their families. The only exceptions are medical hospitals and ambulance services, where work is organized around the clock.
However, regardless of where doctors celebrate their professional holiday, their phones will be ringing off the hook all day with calls from grateful patients.
There are no universal recipes here. Some give traditional flowers, sweets and alcohol, others show their imagination and prefer gifts with humor. The price these days includes caricature figurines of doctors, funny souvenirs with a comic Hippocratic Oath or a set of scalpels imitating the tools of medieval aesculapians. In short, finding a gift for Health Worker's Day is not difficult.
However, when preparing a gift for your favorite doctor, it is important not to lose sight of the very important aspect: in Belarus, restrictions are legally established for healthcare workers receiving gifts - the cost of the gift should not exceed five times the base amount. Otherwise, your gift may be regarded as a bribe.
But this is not a reason to be upset. Show your imagination, come up with an unusual move, write poetry for your favorite doctor, contact your colleagues - they probably have photos of your favorite doctor at work - prepare a wall newspaper for him with humorous poems and photo collages.
Such a gift will definitely be remembered much more vividly than the traditional and faceless set of flowers-candy-alcohol. In the end, if you don’t know what to give, just call and say grateful and sincere words. After all, it is important for any person to know that what he does is needed by people. And medical workers deserve this more than anyone else.
Sputnik joins in congratulating all healthcare workers on their professional holiday!
A doctor is a responsible, risky and unpredictable profession, vital and irreplaceable for any society. This is probably why, even on their professional holiday, doctors cannot afford a full day off.
In Russia, traditionally, Doctor's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June: in 2018, the holiday falls on June 17.
Medical Worker Day was first established in the Soviet Union according to the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council “On Holidays and Memorial Days.” Subsequently, the idea was picked up all over the world, and now doctors are honored in dozens of CIS countries, Europe, Africa and America.
Vladimir Voronov
By the way, Doctor's Day is not the only holiday for medical workers. Thus, in some countries May 12 is celebrated as International Day nurse. The date of the celebration was not chosen by chance: on May 12, 1820, Florence Nightingall, one of the founders of the Sisters of Charity movement, was born. But nurses don’t have their own day off.
However, the servants of Aesculapius (the ancient Roman god of healing), regardless of gender, have more than enough reasons to celebrate: the Day of the Surgeon, Paramedic, Resuscitator, Therapist and dozens of other professional holidays are celebrated in Russia annually and on a large scale.
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Everyone who has even a vague understanding of doctors and medicine has heard about the Hippocratic Oath, but few people other than doctors know about its meaning. In fact, the Hippocratic oath is a kind of “code of honor” for doctors, which contains moral and ethical standards behavior of a medical worker.
The original text says:
“I will not give anyone the deadly remedy they ask from me and will not show the way for such a plan... Whatever I see or hear during treatment, I will keep silent about it, considering such things a secret. I will conduct my life and my art purely and immaculately ".
The medical profession is changing rapidly, and the Hippocratic Oath has also changed. Modern doctors recite legally approved versions of the “Hippocratic Oath,” and in some countries the Hippocratic version is not used at all for historical reasons. Nevertheless, the Hippocratic Oath remains of interest to historians and many medical professionals who appreciate ancient history healing.
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Every person who has ever been to a hospital has wondered: why do doctors wear white coats? The reason for this is as justified as it is banal. The medical uniform appeared back in the 19th century, and in those days doctors wore ordinary aprons and gloves.
Once, the English doctor Joseph Lister noticed that blood and dirt were clearly visible on a white apron, and suggested that all doctors, for the purposes of hygiene and sanitation, should wear only snow-white coats. The idea caught on, and in the future the skill of a doctor was judged by how much he soiled his robe during an operation.
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Doctor's Day in Russia is not an official day off in the full sense: firstly, the medical profession knows no rest, and secondly, the holiday itself always falls on Sunday. And yet, in many cities of Russia, concerts, conferences and festive tables are held on Doctor’s Day. Doctors and their relatives congratulate each other, give gifts and set festive tables.
National Doctors Day in India is celebrated on the first of July, on the birthday of the legendary physician, chief minister of West Bengal, prominent political and statesman, and activist of the resistance movement in India, Bidhan Chandra Roy. On their professional holiday, Indian doctors provide free tests, X-rays and ultrasounds to everyone, and do tests for HIV and other dangerous diseases.
