Since 2016, Azerbaijan has been preparing for the introduction of compulsory health insurance that will be applied in January 2020.

Unawareness of the citizens and lack of educational works may cause serious problems in the insurance market of every country.

Drug addiction in Azerbaijan has recently slightly increased, which negatively affects the youth. The government has begun the new stage in the process of taking comprehensive steps to tackle this serious disease among the population.

Dire need in health insurance in the case of expensive medical service is severe issue which settlement is already underway.

For thousands of years, people around the world have believed in the healing powers of Naftalan oil which can be found at high-end spas in Azerbaijan.

In recent years, Azerbaijan has taken solid steps to improve medical sector, including enhancing the efficiency of health care, implementing infrastructure projects and application of effective policies which are aimed to increase the transparency of the health care system in the country.

The medical institutions will be accredited every five years in Azerbaijan, Trend reports on June 27.

Azerbaijan has joined the Charter of the International Committee of Military Medicine, Trend reports.

The Azerbaijani government takes great care of patients with hemophilia with not only providing them with free medicines, but also helping them maintain a healthy lifestyle and improving the quality of their life.

The World Health Organization (WHO) highly appreciated the measures on epidemiological control and immunization carried out in Azerbaijan against measles and rubella, Javahir Suleymanova, specialist in infectious diseases at the WHO office in Azerbaijan, told Trend.

The number of tuberculosis patients in Azerbaijan last year decreased by three percent compared to 2017.

The issue of collection of contributions for compulsory medical insurance from the tax administration in Azerbaijan should be considered.

Private clinics will be granted the right to carry out the removal of donor organs and transplantation surgeries in Azerbaijan.

Today, a significant number of Azerbaijani citizens need organ transplantation.

New cases of measles have been recorded in Azerbaijan.

Farma Shah LLC, a producer of medicinal plants in Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR), plans to export its products to Russia, a source at the company told Trend.

Highly qualified cardiovascular surgeon Anar Amrah and his team has performed an artificial heart implant surgery for a patient with a diagnosis of severe heart and pulmonary insufficiency.

There have been some changes in the pharmacy memorandum signed between Iran and Azerbaijan, Javad Jahangirzadeh, Iran's ambassador to Azerbaijan, said at a press conference, Trend reports.

After the earthquake that occurred in Azerbaijan’s Shamakhi regiont, 30 people appealed to the Shamakhi central hospital, Azerbaijan’s Healthcare Ministry told Trend Feb. 6.

Azerbaijani MPs Aflatun Amashov and Fazil Mustafa have proposed to adopt the “Law on Online Media” at a plenary session of the country’s parliament, Trend reports.

The A/H1N1 virus is currently spread in Azerbaijan, but it is not a new virus and is not designated as “swine flu”, said Hande Harmanci, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) office in Azerbaijan, Trend reports.

The pilot project on the implementation of mandatory health insurance system in Azerbaijan will not be expanded in 2019, Zaur Aliyev, chairman of the State Agency for Mandatory Health Insurance under the Cabinet of Ministers, told Trend on Jan. 31.

Three winter months are not only endless snow fun and New Year holidays.

Polyclinics in Azerbaijan will work under the system of compulsory medical insurance and no polyclinic or clinic will be left out of this system, Zaur Aliyev, chairman of the State Agency for Mandatory Health Insurance, told Trend on Jan. 22.

A package of services is being renewed in Azerbaijan as part of the work being carried out to apply the mandatory health insurance system, chairman of the State Agency on Mandatory Health Insurance under the Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers, Zaur Aliyev, told Trend.