OREANDA-NEWS. October 14, 2008 The 17th International Health Care 2008 Exhibition, being the largest event of the level in Ukraine and the fourth in Europe,  kicked off at the International Exposition Center in Kyiv.

The main goal of the forum is to familiarize professionals with modern technologies and achievements in medicine and pharmaceutics. The exposition area makes up 10,000 sq m with more than 370 companies from 27 countries represented.

The event initiators are the Ukraine-based Premier Expo company, ITE Group Plc. (Great Britain), GІMA (Germany), ITE LLC Moscow (Russia), press-service of Ukraine's Health Care Ministry reported.

The exhibition program envisages the All-Ukrainian Conference "Ukraine's Path towards International Standards. Standardization and Certification of Production and Turnout of Medical Means and Medical Purpose Products", seminars and reports.

The exhibition will stay open till October 17.