The State Agency on Mandatory Health Insurance will make changes to the basic package of country's compulsory health insurance system (CHI).

The development of compulsory medical insurance in the country may positively affect voluntary medical insurance, chairman of board of A-Group Insurance company Anar Bayramov told Trend.

Azerbaijan has been implementing a pilot project on Compulsory Health Insurance (CHI), which currently covers Mingachevir, Yevlakh and Agdash regions of the Republic, since the end of 2016.

In recent days the number of appeals to Georgian hospitals with the complaints of intestinal infection has increased significantly.

The State Agency for Compulsory Medical Insurance plans to update the basic package of services in the future.

A new electronic service that will allow to learn the results of medical tests without leaving the house is launched by the State Agency for Mandatory Medical Insurance.

The U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani Ministry of Health are working together to improve the health of Azerbaijani citizens, both in Baku and outside of the capital.

In the coming years, compulsory medical insurance will be implemented throughout Azerbaijan, Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Ali Ahmadov told reporters on June 14.

Smoking is common throughout the world, and getting people out of tobacco dependence today is becoming a priority for many states.

New hospitals will be built in six cities of Azerbaijan in 2018, said Jeyhun Mammadov, director of the Center for Healthcare and Reforms under the Ministry of Healthcare of Azerbaijan.

Spring is the time when nature wakes up from its winter sleep. At the same time, human body is weakened by long absence of vitamins.

Iran will run one of the private hospitals in Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan’s Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev told reporters in Tehran March 13.

As we enter the thick of winter, now is the time to really focus on staying healthy. There is a sharp rise in the incidence of flu in many countries.

Stem cells that have the ability to transform into different cells of the human body are a serious breakthrough in the field of medicine. Azerbaijan is planning the formation of a new culture of health care for human beings.

The final rating of “overweight” includes 195 states. Azerbaijan ranks 88th in this rating with 21.3 percent of the population suffering from overweight.

The Center of Thalassemia in Azerbaijan has become a public legal entity, and for patients receiving treatment at the center, the services will be free of charge, the director of the center, Valeh Huseynov said.

It is possible that a few years later, vaccination against chickenpox will be incorporated into vaccination program. Currently, however, this issue is not in the agenda Deputy Director of the Republican Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health Afag Aliyeva told Trend.

“Due to the high vaccination coverage in Azerbaijan, measles among children is not possible,” she said. “The main cause of measles in Ukraine, Romania, Italy and some European countries is low vaccination coverage.”

The number of patients suffering from the advanced stage of tuberculosis and its widespread form has decreased twice since 2010 - from 7.6 percent to 3.4 percent in Azerbaijan.

The number of patients with thalassemia and hemophilia, inherited blood disorders, is reduced in Azerbaijan compared to previous years.

This year 76 patients have undergone transplantation operations at the Central Hospital of Oil Workers of Azerbaijan, nine patients undergone liver transplantation, Mirjalal Kazimi, the director of the Department of Surgery and Transplantation, said at a press conference on December 13.

Azerbaijan has been elected as a full-fledged member of the International Committee of Military Medicine (ICMM) as the organization held its 42nd World Congress in New Delhi, India.

Annually, in accordance with the decision of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the decision of the UN General Assembly adopted in 1988, the World Day Against Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is celebrated on December 1.

Suicide-encouraging flu antiviral drugs of Japanese origin are not sold in Azerbaijan, the Center for Analytical Expertise of the country’s Healthcare Ministry told Trend on November 27.

This year, Azerbaijan joined the global Breast Cancer Campaign, which this year celebrates the anniversary - 25 years.