The Estonian Health Foundation and readers of the medical portal www.arst.ee selected Dr Alice Lill, Head of the COVID Department of East Tallinn Centre of Internal Medicine, as Doctor of the Year 2020. This was the 19th annual award for Doctor of the Year.

Coming in for an appointment when you are ill means that 100 other people will have to cancel theirs. In the worst-case scenario, you may infect your doctor, causing them to stay at home for two weeks, meaning that another 300 patients will have to have their appointments cancelled.

The focus of Patient Safety Day this year is on the safety of health workers. To show the appreciation and respect of medical personnel, orange balloons are displayed in the foyers of East Tallinn Central Hospital.

The East Tallinn Central Hospital Ear-Nose-Throat Centre, which was located at Ravi street for 80 years, has now moved from its former location and today opened its new rooms in the hospital’s Magdaleena unit.