“The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus made a decision to open a new specialty 1-79 01 02 "Pediatrics" for 1^st stage of undergraduate degree at our university (order No. 75 dated 28 January 2021)."

The library informs its readers that the subscription to the European Pharmacopoeia (10th edition) for 200 workstations in the local network has been renewed.

On the basis of the chemical-pharmaceutical laboratory of the Educational Establishment "Vitebsk State Order of Peoples’ Friendship Medical University", aided by Carl Zeiss Optec Vertriebs GmbH company’s engineers from Minsk and Moscow, the newest laser microdissection device and ejection of the PALM system based on the Axio Observer 7 inverted microscope was installed, commissioned and put into operation. In the Republic of Belarus, a similar device is used only in the molecular-genetic laboratory of carcinogenesis of the State Institution "Republican Scientific and Practical Center of Oncology and Medical Radiology named after V.I. N.N. Alexandrov ".

The library informs its readers that the university has renewed the Cochrane Library subscription.

On December 16, 2020 a delegation from the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka visited Vitebsk State Medical University.  It comprised of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus His Excellency Professor M.D. Lamawansa, Deputy Ambassador, Minister Plenipotentiary, Adviser to the Embassy, Mr. Mohamed Anas, wife of the Ambassador Mrs. Tamaramala Kannangara and personal assistant/interpreter of the Ambassador Mrs. Olesya Romanova.