Healthcare Minister: transplantology becoming brand of Belarus’ medicine

High technology is coming to us by leaps and bounds. Recently, specialists of the Republican Scientific and Practical Centre for Traumatology and Orthopaedics have mastered shoulder joint replacement together with German colleagues. Doctors from abroad are also coming to us for experience. Belarus’ Healthcare Minister Aleksandr Khodzhaev assessed the achievements and prospects of international co-operation.

“The first shoulder joint transplant operations using reversible endoprostheses are unique both for Belarus and the whole of Eastern Europe. Medicine is moving forward, with new technologies constantly developing. Our specialists have been trained in Germany and Italy and are ready to implement their knowledge in our country. Belarusians also share their own experiences abroad. Last year, our leading doctors in the field of paediatric haematology, cardiology, oncology, and neonatology conducted high-tech surgeries, master classes, consultations and seminars in Uzbekistan,” the Healthcare Minister noted.

He stressed that today we are among top-10 organ donation countries, being ahead of a range of European countries. Transplantology is becoming a brand of Belarusian medicine. In 2019, Oleg Rummo, the Director of the Scientific and Practical Centre for Surgery, Transplantology and Haematology – heading the delegation – participated in a joint liver lobe transplant on a child with Armenian colleagues at the Arabkir Institute of Child and Adolescent Health in Armenia. It was a huge event for Armenia, which had a resonance in the media. It is safe to say that this has played a big role in the development of our bilateral relations.

“The Healthcare Ministry is actively liaising with many countries of the world,” Mr. Khodzhaev added. “More than fifty international interdepartmental agreements have been signed, including with China, Equatorial Guinea, Venezuela, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe. Issues of co-operation with the PRC are under special control and include the supply of high-tech medical equipment to our country, the localisation of production of Chinese medical products and medicines in Belarus, as well as the modernisation of pharmaceutical industries using modern Chinese technologies.”