Head of the Department - Prof. Naumau Ihar Alekseyevich
The main activities of the Department of General Hygiene and Ecology are educational, methodical, scientific and educational activities.
Being a leading preventive discipline, hygiene provides a scientific and practical substantiation of preventive measures that are implemented both at the state level and constitute the most important part of the daily professional activities of a medical worker.
The purpose of teaching hygiene is to prepare medical students on the theoretical and practical issues of sanitary and hygienic measures aimed at reducing the intensity of adverse environmental factors, and using the favorable influence of environmental factors on the course and outcome of diseases, restoring health and efficiency, the preservation and strengthening of public health, the prevention of premature aging and the extension of labor longevity.