Azerbaijan develops clinical protocol for diagnosis and treatment of monkeypox virus

The Public Health and Reforms Centre of the Azerbaijani Health Ministry has prepared a clinical protocol for the diagnosis and treatment of monkeypox.

This protocol, approved upon the corresponding decision of the Scientific and Medical Council of the Health Ministry, is intended for therapists, pediatricians, family doctors, emergency doctors, as well as specialists in infectious and skin-venereal diseases, according to Report.

The protocol was drawn up by specialists from the Public Health and Reforms Centre, the Azerbaijan State Advanced Training Institute for Doctors named after Aziz Aliyev, the Strategic Development Department of Azerbaijani Management Union of Medical Territorial Units (TABIB), the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Azerbaijan Medical University.