Medical Worker’s Day

On June 15, 2023, a documentary exhibition dedicated to the Day of the Medical Worker of the Republic of Belarus opened at the Palace of the Republic.

On the third Sunday of June every year, all doctors in Belarus celebrate their professional holiday – Medical Worker’s Day or simply Medic’s Day. This is a professional holiday for those who have chosen the difficult path of helping people, relieving pain, giving hope for recovery, and sometimes saving lives. On the day of the holiday, many of the doctors will celebrate it in the performance of their duties, treat patients. Only in 1980 the holiday was approved at the highest level by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

Medical Worker’s Day is another reason to thank for mercy, compassion, for thousands of lives saved, and to say that the medical profession is an example of high service in the name and for the good of a person. A doctor is one of the most peaceful and creative professions, it is everyday work that brings goodness, care and light, allowing people to become healthy again. A doctor is the first to meet us at birth, and then throughout their lives, people trust medical workers with the most precious thing they have – their health and their loved ones, and this requires modern knowledge, high dedication and the best human qualities from doctors. Compassion, humanism and mercy – these principles are based on the professional activity of a doctor. “I will conduct my life and my art purely and without blemish” – the Hippocratic oath sounds, sealing the official document on medical education with the seal of conscience.

An accessible healthcare system in Belarus has always been an important component of the state social policy. Thanks to the state healthcare system and the training of medical personnel, Belarus remains a country with a high level of provision of the population with doctors. The day of the medical worker is a holiday not only for doctors and doctors, but also for paramedics, nurses, junior staff, because no modern device can replace a sensitive and attentive attitude towards the patient. The average age of a specialist doctor in Belarus is 42.4 years, 73.5% of them are women, and every second doctor is a general practitioner or surgeon.

The funds of the National Archives contain original documentary materials. These are provisions, protocols and instructions that reflect the history of the formation of the health care system, the development of the medical industry in our country.

Of the greatest scientific importance and interest are: orders for the Minsk Provincial Department of Health, the staff of local health departments, the schedule of lectures for the courses of the Minsk Soviet School of Sisters of Mercy for 1920, a list of items needed for a dental office, applications for employment, certificates and registration cards doctors, lists of necessary tools and medicines for the sanitation of partisan detachments, documents on the evacuation hospitals of the USSR People’s Commissariat of Health to be relocated to the Byelorussian SSR in 1944, documents on the work of doctors in the post-war period, as well as the text of the oath of a doctor of the Republic of Belarus and other documents.

Numerous guests at the solemn event at the Palace of the Republic were able to get acquainted with these unique documents of the National Archives.

1. Director of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus A.K. Demyanuk and head. Department of the use of documents and information M.A. Starostenko introduces the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus I.V. Petrishenko and other guests of the event with the materials of the exhibition

2. Director of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus A.K. Demyanuk and head. Department of the use of documents and information M.A. Starostenko is introduced to the Director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus O.L. Voinova with exhibition materials

3. Guests of the event study the materials of the exhibition

4. Guests of the event study the materials of the exhibition

5. Guests of the event study the materials of the exhibition

6. Guests of the event study the materials of the exhibition