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Otolaryngologist Vagiz S. Sayfullin wrote a book “Native village of Ishteryakovo” in tatar. The book is dedicated to the history of the doctor’s small homeland and describes people who lived in the village of Ishteryakovo, built and developed it.

A hairball weighing 300 grams and reaching a length of about a meter was removed from the stomach of a 5-year-old girl.

According to surgeons, the girl was admitted to the hospital with complaints of nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. After the examination, trichobesoar was found (a foreign body that occupies almost the entire stomach, duodenum and part of the small intestine).   

The number of flights of sanitary helicopters in Tatarstan is planned to be increased to 160 this year. This has become possible thanks to the national project “Healthcare”. This information was given by the head of Republican Center for Disaster Medicine at Republican Clinical Hospital Marina Vorontsova.

Valentina V. Mozhnaya, a pediatric TB specialist at Nizhnekamsk TB Dispensary, has dedicated her whole life to medicine - she has been treating children for 46 years.

Today is World Tuberculosis Day. We talked with one of the most experienced doctors in Nizhnekamsk, the pediatric TB specialist at TB Dispensary Valentina V. Mozhnaya about the myths about tuberculosis, BCG vaccination, the Mantoux test, and about whether Pat from the “Three Comrades” Remarque would have cured today.

Spend more time and talk with your child: ask how his day has passed, what's new with friends, take an interest in his health. Do not neglect periodic preventive examinations by doctors. And this is not medical advice at all, but elementary attention to your closest person, which can prevent problems that harm both physical and psychological health. The next story that we will tell you will amaze you with its “volumes” and make you seriously think.

Health Ministry of Tatarstan Republic informs about the following procedure for issuing and extending a certificate of incapacity for work for citizens returning from territories where new cases of coronavirus infection (2019-nCoV) have been reported in accordance with the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 18.03.2020 No. 294 “On approval of the Temporary rules for issuing disability certificates, assignment and payment of temporary disability benefits in case of quarantine”.

The official (confirmed by the headquarters of the Government of the Russian Federation) daily statistics on cases of coronavirus disease appears from 14:00 to 15:00 P.M. and is immediately published on stopcoronavirus.rf

Section on coronavirus on the website of Health Ministry of Russia: https://www.rosminzdrav.ru/ministry/covid19

Statistics in Tatarstan Republic: rt-covid 19.ru

Hot telephone line in Tatarstan: 8-800-222-59-00 ( the calls are taken every day from 7:30 till 20:00).

United hot telephone line in Russia: 8-800-2000-112

The hero of our interview today is Alexander V. Dubrovsky, Tatarstan healthcare legend, TR State Prize laureate, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation and Tatarstan Republic, Excellent Worker of Public Health of the USSR healthcare. Alexander V. Dubrovsky, who recently celebrated his 74th birthday, dedicated more than 40 years to serving the healthcare system, has gone from otolaryngologist of Tetyushsky Central Regional Hospital to the deputy head of the district and People's Deputy of the RSFSR.

It is recommended, first of all, a diet of low calorie intake with fats, carbohydrates and proteins, increased intake of vitamins and fluids to maintain the general strength of the body and increase its resistance to infection, reduce intoxication, prevent negative effects on the gastrointestinal tract at high temperature and bed rest.