Ministry of Health

Turkey's Ministry of Health, with the support of UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO), is conducting a campaign to complete the vaccination of all refugee children under the age of five. 

Children are being vaccinated in all of the country's 81 provinces by staff from the ministry between Feb. 15 and Feb. 28.

Serbian and Belarus prime ministers, Aleksandar Vucic and Andrei Kobyakov, on Thursday in Minsk attended the signing of several inter-state agreements.

Onkim Stem Cell Technologies, which was established in 2006 at Istanbul Technical University's Ayazağa Campus, recently realized its 15th umbilical cord blood transplantation at the Çukurova University Balcalı Hospital for the treatment of crescent-cell anemia. 

A Romanian Ministry of Health investigation that revealed that four transplant clinics did not have adequate equipment for such surgery - and that the country's only lung transplant centre got its license based on disputable documentation - has raised questions about transplants and triggered accusations about organ harvesting.

Тhe movement of refugees outside the placement centre in Harmanli will be temporarily stopped as of November 23, said Deputy Minister of Health Vanio Sharkov at a briefing earlier on November 22.

Тhe measure is necessary as a result of the tension created among residents of the city in the past few days, who are worried about a possible infection.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reshuffled his cabinet late on Friday, removing ministers who have expressed opposition to the austerity measures and economic measures demanded by Greece’s international creditors, but retaining his ministers of finance and foreign affairs.

Turkey's Health Ministry is planning to build migrant health centers staffed with only Syrian medical professionals across a number of provinces that host a refugee population above 20,000. 

Eucerin Serbia and the B92 Fund, with the support of the Serbian Ministry of Health, are organizing free dermoscopic examinations for all interested citizens.

These will take place as part of a project for early detection of skin cancer - Pregled za sve ("examination for all") - on April 22 and 23, at Belgrade's Republic Square, from 09:00 until 21:00 CET.

An eight-year-old refugee boy at the Piraeus port passenger terminal has been confirmed to have hepatitis A and was admitted to Agia Sophia children’s hospital in Athens.

A huge explosion has rocked the capital of Turkey, Ankara Saturday with the result of 34 dead and 125 injured, 2 of which are in critical condition. According to witnesses a car bomb went off in Guvenpark in Kizilay close to several bus stops. Some vehicles were on fire. According to the Greek embassy in Turkey there are no Greeks among the dead.