In Minsk in 2018, about 14.6 thousand workers and their children received vouchers to the sanatorium at the expense of state social insurance, the BelTA office was told in the representative office of the Minsk city government of the Republican center for health improvement and sanatorium-resort treatment of the population. More than 6.7 thousand children (37.7% of those with a medical condition, except for disabled children) were sent for sanatorium treatment free of charge. There are also more children who have gone through rehabilitation together with one of their parents. "There are about 6.7 thousand rehabilitation commissions in the organizations and enterprises of Minsk, as well as 45 student commissions. The provision of sanatorium-resort treatment and rehabilitation in the city amounted to 15.1 healthy people per 1000 workers," the office said. . Improvement of students is organized mainly on the basis of sanatoriums and dispensaries of the Belarusian State Medical University and "Polytechnic" BNTU. Almost 2.6 thousand young people rested in them during the year. In addition, on the basis of the Politekhnik Dispensary in the summer period, a health camp for more than 900 students was operating for the first time. As for children with disabilities, it was directed at the expense of the republican budget and state social insurance for sanatorium-resort treatment of 678 young men and women. This included 111 children with cerebral palsy (30% of those who applied) visited Druskininkai in the sanatorium “Belarus”. "The frequency of obtaining such vouchers for children diagnosed with cerebral palsy is on average once every 2.5-3 years, some children get vouchers to other sanatoriums," the specialists said. In the sanatorium "Belorusochka" over 100 children rested with a diagnosis of diabetes, 162 disabled children with various pathologies underwent rehabilitation accompanied by a parent in the health camp "Star" and the sanatorium "Sputnik", another 19 children took the city children's center medical rehabilitation "Praleska". Also in 2018, 180 disabled people and participants of the Great Patriotic War and 36 veterans of the Great Patriotic War, including 29 people, were provided with vouchers at the expense of the budget of the Union State of Belarus and Russia. More than 3.7 thousand vouchers were allocated to non-working people with disabilities of groups I and II who are entitled to priority free provision of vouchers.
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