More than 70,000 children in Vitebsk and the district will be served by the polyclinic after reconstruction

May 23, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. More than 70 thousand children in Vitebsk and Vitebsk region will be able to receive medical care at the reconstructed central children's polyclinic and its branches. The grand opening of the facility took place today, BELTA correspondent reports. "Children are a strategic resource of the state. The protection of motherhood and childhood is the most important priority of the state," emphasized the chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Alexander Kosinets, at the opening ceremony. Currently, an investment program "Health" is being implemented in the region, which provides for the reconstruction, modernization, and new construction of medical institutions, and the strengthening of their material and technical base. The reconstruction of the central children's polyclinic, carried out over two years, has increased its capacity by 120 visits per shift, which will now amount to 600 visits per shift. 74 thousand children in Vitebsk and Vitebsk region will receive high-quality modern outpatient care. For this purpose, modern equipment for ultrasound and endoscopic diagnostics, a clinical diagnostic laboratory, a medical rehabilitation department, a centralized sterilization department have been purchased and installed, and workplaces for ENT doctors have been acquired. The working conditions for medical staff have been significantly improved. Additionally, the polyclinic will house: a medical rehabilitation department; a city center for alternative vaccination; a department for X-ray, endoscopic, and ultrasound diagnostics; a center for reproductive health of youth; an early intervention department. The polyclinic will become the regional information and methodological center for organizing outpatient care for the child population. A medical register of children in the region will be created here. The estimated cost of the polyclinic reconstruction work amounted to Br42.5 billion. This year, Br300 billion has been allocated for the reconstruction and modernization of 80 healthcare facilities in the region and the city of Vitebsk. Over Br72 billion has been utilized in four months. Work is ahead of schedule on the reconstruction and modernization of the Vitebsk Regional Clinical Hospital, the modernization of the Regional Infectious Diseases Hospital, the reconstruction of the therapeutic building of the Vitebsk City Emergency Hospital, the reconstruction of the gynecological department building of the regional maternity hospital to house a women's polyclinic, the construction of polyclinics in the microdistricts of YUG-7 and in "Bilevo", the central district hospital in Sharkovshchina, and the reconstruction and construction of healthcare facilities in Orsha and Novopolotsk. -0-