The Moscow Department of Health conducts preventive and educational events dedicated to World Hepatitis Day - July 28

World Hepatitis Day was first celebrated on May 19, 2008

In 2011, representatives of the World Health Assembly decided to postpone the date of the event to July 28, coinciding with the memory of the doctor Baruch Samuel Blumberg, who discovered the hepatitis B virus and studied its pathological effect on the liver.

The Moscow Department of Health organizes events:

from July 22 to July 27, 2019 from 09:00 to 17:00, a medical hotline for the prevention (vaccination) of hepatitis works at the Center for Medical Prevention of the Moscow City Health Department by phone: 8-499-194-27- 74

From July 22 to July 27, 2019, medical lectures on the prevention of viral hepatitis in the Health Centers and medical prevention departments (offices) were organized at the medical organizations of the state healthcare system of the city of Moscow

On July 25, 2019, a School for patients with chronic viral hepatitis was organized for patients.

Time: from 10:00 to 15:00

Venue: Conference Hall GBUZ "Infectious Clinical Hospital No. 1 of the Department of Health of the City of Moscow" (Moscow, Volokolamsk Highway, 63, Building 4.

July 29, 2019 scientific-practical conference "Actual aspects of chronic hepatitis B and C in clinical practice" for medical specialists of medical organizations of the state healthcare system of the city of Moscow, providing primary health care

Time: from 09:00 to 18:00

Location: Moscow, st. 24 Rusakovskaya, Hotel Holiday Inn Sokolniki