Oleg Salagay, Deputy Minister on Healthcare of the Russian Federation, highly assessed the project of BSMU Volunteer Center

On 16 November the forum of medical volunteers in the Volga Federal district started in Kazan. The volunteers from the Bashkir State Medical University attended he forum.

The three-day forum became the platform for communication, experience exchange and training of medical volunteers from the Volga Federal district.

The volunteers from 15 regions presented their projects at the forum. Only eight works were chosen for the poster presentation, where the educational and preventive project of BSMU medical volunteers "I love my kidneys" was included. Firuza Shingareeva, the coordinator of the all-Russian social movement "Medical Volunteers" in Bashkortostan, 6th year student of BSMU, presented that project. Oleg Salagay, Deputy Minister on Healthcare of the Russian Federation, read the poster report and promised support enlarging the geography of the project in the entire Volga Federal district. The project has been successfully implemented during three years in the Republic of Bashkortostan – an endemic zone for HFRS: 90% of the incidence in the PFD is in our region, and the PFD is the first in Russia in terms of morbidity.

After the grand opening, trainings, master classes, a round table and a strategic session were held for medical volunteers. Oleg Salagay in the format of an open dialogue talked to the forum participants:

 - Today, a huge number of people receive medical care with the participation of volunteers, learn how to eat and lead the healthy lifestyle. Hundreds of health posts become better in the event «#ДоброВСело» which is held by the volunteer doctors. All this is precisely the vaccination against indifference, as Veronika Skvortsova, the Minister of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, calls medical volunteering," said Oleg Salagay.

The participants had an extensive educational program in different areas of medical volunteering: donation, volunteering in medical organizations, school volunteering, psychology, leadership.

At the second day of the forum, BSMU delegation took part in the action dedicated to the world diabetes day "Together against diabetes". Open lessons were held in several Kazan schools on the topic of diabetes, stroke, healthy lifestyles, drug abuse prevention. In addition, medical volunteers met with Pavel Savchuk, the Chairman of the all-Russian public movement "Medical Volunteers", and visited the Simulation Center of Kazan Federal University.

The last day of the forum, Evgeniy Mashkovskiy, associate Professor of the Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation department at Sechenov University, Director of the Russian Representative Office of the International Association for Medical Education, expert of the International Paralympic Committee held the master class "Map of professional development - how to find your calling in medicine" for the participants of the forum in Kazan.

The forum ended with the meeting with Alexey Sozinov, t rector of Kazan State Medical University, and awarding of the participants.