Israel-Azerbaijan: psychiatrists understand each other

Peter Lyukimson, Israel. Exclusively to Vestnik Kavkaza

A group of leading Israeli psychiatrists returned from Baku where the Israeli-Azerbaijani scientific practical conference on problems of child and teenager psychiatry took place.

“It was the first such a conference where professionals from the two friendly countries only participated,” Doctor Jacob Polyakovich, the head of the Israeli delegation, Director of the Center of Mental Helath in the town of Tirat Carmel, Chairman of the Israeli Association of Child and Teenager Psychiatry. “Primarily, we discussed experience exchange between doctors of Azerbaijan and Israel in the sphere of development of the system of psychiatric aid to children and teenagers in hospitals, schools, universities and usage of psychiatric methods and various medicines. So, we discuss aspects which are interesting to professionals only. At the same time, it was an important step in building cooperation between health workers of the two countries in general. I think in the near future such Israeli-Azerbaijani forums will become frequent, touching on other medical aspects. This is an integral part of developing relations between Israel and Azerbaijan.”

Doctor Polyakovich told Vestnik Kavkaza that he was charmed by beauty of Baku and the warm welcome of Israeli doctors by Azerbaijan: “We arrived to meet colleagues, but we said goodbye to close friends. And we want to see them again in Israel. We will show that we are very hospitable too.”