medicine doctors and professors in Vilnius. The same year, the society established a teaching hospital (clinic) under the Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine. In 1918–1941, the Lithuanian Sanitary Aid Society operated in Vilnius. The Ministry of Health is located in Vilnius and is responsible for the healthcare in Lithuania. Vilnians have to pay the compulsory health insurance (6.98% of the salary), which is governed by the Vilnius Territorial Health Insurance Fund and guarantees free health care to every insured person, however some residents are exempt from this tax (e.g. disabled persons, children, full-time students, etc.). Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos and the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital are the primary hospitals in Vilnius. There also are eight polyclinics, the Medical Centre of the Ministry of the Interior and a number of private health care facilities in the city. Media The first Lithuanian periodical newspaper (weekly) Kurier Litewski was published in Vilnius from 1760 to 1763. Vilnius is home to numerous newspapers, magazines and publications including Lietuvos rytas, Lietuvos žinios, Verslo žinios, Respublika, Valstiečių laikraštis, Mokesčių žinios, Aktualijos, 15min, Vilniaus diena, Vilniaus Kraštas, Lietuvos aidas, Valstybė, Veidas, Panelė, Franciscan Bernardinai.lt, Russian Litovskij kurjer, Polish Tygodnik Wileńszczyzny. Vilnius TV Tower is located in Karoliniškės microdistrict and transmits television signals to the whole of Vilnius. The most-viewed networks in Lithuania are headquartered in Vilnius including LRT televizija, TV3, LNK, BTV, LRT Plius, LRT Lituanica, TV6, Lietuvos rytas TV, TV1, TV8, Sport1, Liuks!, Info TV. The first stationary radio station in Vilnius Rozgłośnia Wileńska was launched in Žvėrynas microdistrict on 28 November 1927, but was later moved to the present-day Gediminas Avenue in 1935. M-1, the first commercial radio station in Lithuania, started broadcasting from Vilnius in 1989. Many other Lithuanian or foreign languages radio stations also broadcasts from Vilnius, most of them signals comes from the Vilnius TV Tower or the Vilnius Press House. The Lithuanian Union of Journalists () and the Lithuanian Society of Journalists () are headquartered in Vilnius. Twin towns – sister cities Vilnius is twinned with: Aalborg, Denmark Almaty, Kazakhstan Astana, Kazakhstan Chicago, United States Dnipro, Ukraine Donetsk, Ukraine Duisburg, Germany Erfurt, Germany Gdańsk, Poland (1998) Guangzhou, China Joensuu, Finland Kyiv, Ukraine Kraków, Poland Łódź, Poland Madison, United States Pavia, Italy Reykjavík, Iceland Riga, Latvia Salzburg, Austria Taipei, Taiwan Tallinn, Estonia Tbilisi, Georgia Warsaw, Poland Former twin towns and friendly towns (until 2022): Irkutsk, Russia Kaliningrad, Russia Krasnoyarsk, Russia Minsk,