Employees of institutions and bodies of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare consider September 15 as the Day of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Service, marking their professional holiday with this date. Why is it celebrated on this particular day and what is its history?
Holiday date
On September 15, 1922, the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR adopted the Decree "On the Sanitary Bodies of the Republic", from which the state sanitary and epidemiological supervision began its work. Its main task is to strengthen and preserve the health of the country's population. During its existence, the Sanitary and Epidemiological Service has gone through many difficult years, when infectious diseases mowed down hundreds of thousands of people.
September 15 is marked as the beginning of a new phase in the formation of the state sanitary authorities of Russia.
To date, the implementation of the National Project on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases has allowed the employees of the sanitary and epidemiological service to achieve significant results in the fight against hepatitis, measles, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, influenza, rubella and a number of other serious diseases. All this became possible thanks to the difficult path that the Russian State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service has gone through in 92 years of its work.
history of the holiday
The first anti-epidemic institutions in Russia were represented by permanent border quarantines that arose in the middle of the 18th century in order to prevent foreign infectious diseases from entering the country. The first Moscow service, whose duties included hygienic rationing, statistics of epidemics, education of the population and analysis of the causes of its incidence, was created in 1873. Five years later, the first sanitary bureau of Russia appeared in the St. Petersburg zemstvo.
The active formation of sanitary bureaus in other Russian zemstvos fell on the period of the 80-90s of the 19th century.
On April 19, 1991, the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service entered a new phase - the State Duma adopted the law "On the Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare of the Population", which allowed to legislatively regulate public relations in this area. Eight years later, amendments were made to this law in terms of social and hygienic monitoring, sanitary and epidemiological examinations, state sanitary and epidemiological rationing, as well as hygienic and toxicological assessments. These innovations accelerated the development of the sanitary and epidemiological service and made the health of the country's population a priority task of the state scale.
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