USSR: Healthcare excellence worker badge

USSR: Healthcare Excellence Worker Badge, awarded between 1939 and 1962.

Conditions for awarding:

• Demonstrate an excellent socialist spirit in one’s work.
• Perfectly fulfill one’s duty in providing medical and healthcare services to the population.
• Take care to preserve the health of the citizens of the USSR.
• Constantly improve one’s qualifications and share experience with others.
• Achieve significant progress in scientific work in the field of health, as well as in organizing medical and preventive care for the population.

This badge was part of the professional distinctions that could lead to the title of “Veteran of Labor.”

Type II badge, made in one piece, with an engraved number on the back “23,430.” Manufacturer’s mark Монетный двор (Coin Workshop) of Moscow. Enamel badge in good condition.

Dimensions: 1.46 in x 1.26 in