History of cooperation of the department of phthiatry KemSMU and practical health of Kuzbass in anti-tuberculosis activity

Abstract

The article examines the history of the development of TB services in the Kemerovo region in the work together with the Department of Phthisiology. The materials used are manuscripts and memoirs of Prof. Kopylova I. F. (1936-2019), memoirs of associate Professor G. V. Kobeleva and veterans of the anti-tuberculosis service of the Kemerovo region, archive of photos and documents of the Department of Phthisiology and the Kemerovo regional clinical phthisiopulmonological medical center. Joint work was not limited only to training; it was a deep involvement of the Department's employees in the organizational, methodological, medical, diagnostic and scientific work of the regional medicalclinic. The breakthrough technologies developed at the Department by I. F. Kopylova in the 1970-1980-ies on the use of a systematic approach to the management of anti-tuberculosis activities using electronic computers at that time were the future of the organization of anti-tuberculosis care. In view of the region's high achievements in anti-TB work, the VI all-Russian Congress of phthisiologists was held in Kemerovo in 1987. The article traces the path from the beginning of teaching Phthisiology and the Foundation of the Department at the Kemerovo medical Institute throughout the entire period of its existence.