XXVIII session of WHO in Geneva

Switzerland. Geneva. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Minister of Health of the USSR, Director of the All-Union Scientific Center of Surgery of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences Boris Vasilyevich Petrovsky, awarded the Leon Bernard Prize and Medal for the development of public health, and Chairman of the Assembly session, Professor from Belgium S. Halter (from left to right in the foreground) during the award ceremony at a special plenary session of the XXVIII session of the World Health Assembly. Petr Egorov/TASS