Publishing a calendar of medical dates and professional holidays of doctors on the website at the beginning of the new year has already become a good tradition. Many of these holidays are celebrated on established dates, but medicine, like life, does not stand still and makes adjustments to their list. The published calendar of medical dates will tell you when to congratulate friends and colleagues, prepare for thematic events and scientific conferences, and also raise your level of medical literacy, help popularize a healthy lifestyle and draw attention to the health preservation of our population.
The calendar of medical holidays for 2024 will once again remind us how important it is to take care of health and appreciate the work of wonderful people in white coats.
We sincerely hope that professional holidays in 2024 will become real holidays when we can celebrate them by honoring doctors, as well as with medical and scientific-practical events.
- January
January 4 – World Braille Day
Braille is a raised-dot tactile writing system intended for writing and reading by blind and visually impaired people.
January 13 – World Depression Day
January 19 – Pathologist's Day
January 30 – World Leprosy DayFebruary
February 4 – International Cancer Day
February 9 – International Dentist Day
February 11 – World Day of the Sick
February 12 – International Epilepsy Day (observed on the second Monday of February)
February 14 – Donor Day
February 14 – International Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day
February 15 – International Operating Room Nurse Day
February 15 – International Childhood Cancer Day
February 18 – International Asperger's Syndrome Day
February 20 – Day of the Apostle and Evangelist Luke
Day of Remembrance of the Apostle and Evangelist Luke. Saint Luke, a native of Syrian Antioch, one of the Seventy Apostles, companion of Saint Paul, a physician from an educated Greek environment. Hearing about Christ, Luke came to Palestine and here fervently accepted the salvific teaching from the Lord Himself. The house church at VSMU named after N.N. Burdenko is consecrated in the name of the Apostle and Evangelist Luke.
February 21 – Feldsher Day in Russia
The first ambulance in the Russian Empire appeared thanks to Doctor of Medicine Attenhofer G.L., who in 1818 proposed creating a service capable of providing first aid at home. This organization was to have special doctors who could provide support to patients. From this day, the date of the emergence of ambulance and the appearance of the first feldsher workers in the country is counted.
February 22 – World Encephalitis Day
February 25 – International Cochlear Implant Day
February 29 – Rare Disease Day- March
March 1 – World Immunity Day
March 3 – International Day for Ear and Hearing Health
March 3 – World Birth Defects Day
March 4 – World Obesity Day. Celebrated since 2015. The holiday was organized by the World Obesity Federation – World Obesity Federation, a non-profit body with official relations with the World Health Organization. The goal is to guide global efforts to reduce
