The "White Daisy" anti-tuberculosis campaign prompted 1,000 Belarusian residents to undergo express fluorography

March 25, Minsk /Elena Prus - BELTA/. About 5.5 thousand viewers from 11 Belarusian cities watched the social informational and preventive film about tuberculosis "The Journey" and the feature film "Moulin Rouge". The free screening was organized as part of the Republican informational and preventive campaign "White Daisy", timed to coincide with World Tuberculosis Day (celebrated on March 24). Natalia Nemkevich, Public Relations Specialist of the UNDP project "Support for the State Program 'Tuberculosis' in the Republic of Belarus", informed a BELTA correspondent about this. On the day of the campaign, mobile fluorographic units "Pulmoexpress" were installed near cinemas in Minsk, Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel, Mogilev, Soligorsk, Svetlogorsk, Zhlobin, Rechitsa, Mozyr, and Pinsk. More than 1,000 people underwent fluorography and received a consultation from a phthisiatrician. Volunteers from the Belarusian Red Cross Society handed them informational materials about tuberculosis and the campaign's symbol – a "White Daisy" badge. "The residents of Belarus, mass media, healthcare, education, and cultural institutions, and public organizations have joined forces in the fight against tuberculosis," noted Natalia Nemkevich. "The public's activity inspires confidence that the slogan of the informational and preventive campaign 'I Can Stop Tuberculosis' will come true." As previously reported by BELTA, the white daisy flower was chosen as the emblem of the fight against tuberculosis in 1911. In the same year, a department of the All-Russian League for the Fight Against Tuberculosis was established in Bobruisk. The first "White Daisy" Day took place on April 24, 1911. To collect donations for the tuberculosis fight fund, campaign participants, including students and gymnasium students, sold artificial white daisies made by children from orphanages. People were given a paper or metal badge of the flower to pin to their clothes. Among those who actively participated in the distribution of "White Daisy" was Sofia Kologrinova, the great-granddaughter of the great Russian poet A.S. Pushkin. -0-