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TR President Rustam Minnikhanov has met the principal of Public Health Management High School Guzel Ulumbekova. The meeting has taken place within the limits of working visit to Houston (the USA, the State of Texas). TR Health Minister Adel Vafin, Assistant to the President Radik Gimatdinov, trade representative in the USA Robert Galiullin took part in the meeting. The sides have discussed possible directions of interacting in healthcare.

Stroke is one of the main reasons of death rate and physical disability in the world. Death rate from stroke in Russia is one of the highest in the world. 200 000 persons die from this disease every year.

Citizens can be inoculated against flu in mobile stations of vaccination. Stations work in territory of big shopping centers and social protection institutions.

Kazan Mitral Workshop with participation of the leading cardio-surgeons from the USA and Germany takes place today at Educational Centre of High Medical Technologies. The first deputy of Health Minister Sergey Osipov took part in the opening ceremony.

The number of the people, suffering various ophthalmologic diseases, grows in Tatarstan. The most widespread diseases among the young population are myopia and syndrome of dry eye; among high generation – glaucoma, cataract and retina pathology. This information was given today at press conference in news agency "Tatars-inform".

Health Minister of the Russian Federation Veronica Skvortsova and Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Nikolay Nikiforov have discussed with regions the Internet connection of the healthcare institutions in video conference.

7974 emergency calls were registered in Emergency Station of Kazan from16.10.17 till 22.10.17. 1309 calls were registered in public places. The greatest number of calls (6212) was on various diseases, including 169 strokes and 48 infarcts.