Opening ceremony of the eighth annual Russian scientific-practical conference «Health of the person in the XXI-st century» 2016 has taken place in Kazan. TR Deputy Health Minister Ildar Fatikhov has opened the conference. During two days delegates from Tatarstan, Moscow, Crimea, Yakutia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and the North Ossetia will discuss the pressing questions of health care. Physicians of medical institutions, teachers of sub-faculties of the high schools and medical colleges, interns, post-graduate students take part in the conference.