INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC PRACTICAL CONFERENCE TO WORLD HEALTH DAY

The annual International scientific practical conference to World Health Day, which World Health Organization in 2016 devoted to the issues on prevention, detection and treatment of diabetes mellitus, is held on 7-8, April, 2016 at O.O. Bohomolets National medical university. The purpose of World Health Day is to pay attention of the world community to the most important problems in global public health.

The organizers of the Conference were Ministry of health care of Ukraine, O.O. Bohomolets National medical university, NAMS of Ukraine, Representative Office of WHO’s Bureau in Ukraine.

The academicians, scientists, doctors, specialists from Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, as well as from leading medical establishment in Ukraine took part in the Conference.

The rector of O.O. Bohomolets National medical university, professor Kateryna Amosova made the welcome speech on performance of World Health Day to the participants in the Conference. “I am sincerely sure that the knowledge, experience and scientific discussion by participants in the Conference will attract the attention of the whole community to the problems of diabetes mellitus, and the overall awareness of population about symptoms of diabetes mellitus will have the determinative importance in order to avoid or to slow down the development of its complications”, – mentioned Kateryna Amosova.

The president in NAMS of Ukraine, academician Vitaliy Tsymbaliuk, director in medical department of MHC of Ukraine Vasyl Kravets, national specialist in struggle against non-infectious diseases at WHO’s Bureau in Ukraine Nataliia Korol took part in the solemnities of the event and made the welcome speeches. Among foreign guests there were Fal Andjey Mariush (National institute of public health, Warsaw (Poland); Preus Karel (ART CAMPUS, Prague (Czech Republic), Josef Novotnyy (department of health care, Polytechnic college of Iglava (Iglava, Czech Republic).

Diabetes mellitus was acknowledged to be the non-infectious epidemic of the XXI century. According to the data from World Health Organization in 2016 there are 380 millions of people, who suffer from diabetes mellitus, among them 1 million 400 thousands Ukrainians, 200 thousands of patients require the daily administration of insulin.

The scientific marathon “Win the diabetes mellitus” united the efforts of scientists, specialists in the sphere of health care and leading doctors of the world in the struggle against global threat to safety of humankind – diabetes mellitus. According to the words by national specialist in struggle against non-infectious diseases at WHO’s Bureau in Ukraine Nataliia Korol, the growth in sickness rate among children and teenagers causes the special worry. The catastrophic rates for distribution of diabetes mellitus now start surpassing the capability of health care system to render the aid to all patients. Thus, the necessity to attract the attention of the public, scientists, medical men, state and political leaders to the problem is always urgent.

Today not every one checks the level of sugar in organism, and weakness, caused by high content of sugar, is written off to hypertension, heart diseases or aged changes. The humankind often does not perceive diabetes mellitus as the diagnosis seriously. Such attitude to own health is fatal – at absence of treatment, the course of diabetes mellitus quickly progresses, the disease hurts the heart, the blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves and increases the risk for development of insult.

The purpose for performance of the conference is to improve the awareness of population about risk factors for origin of dangerous non-infectious diseases and popularization of healthy life style.
The master classes, plenary meetings, lectures and consideration of program reports by participants will be held within the Conference to World Health Day.

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