More than Br30 billion will be allocated for the development of boarding schools in the Vitebsk region in 2013
More than Br30 billion will be allocated for the development of nursing homes in the Vitebsk region in 2013, the Vitebsk regional executive committee's labor, employment and social protection committee informed a BELTA correspondent.
Financing of the network of stationary social service institutions is carried out within the framework of the Comprehensive Program for the Development of Social Services for 2011-2015. In accordance with the planned set of measures, this year it is planned to complete the work started in 2012 on the construction of a medical unit extension to the residential building for 105 places at the Dunilovichsky nursing home, replace the water supply networks to the iron removal station of the Selyutsky nursing home, and prepare design and estimate documentation for the expansion of the canteen for the Yakovlevichsky nursing home due to the doubling of the bed capacity in 2011-2012. It is also planned to complete the capital repairs of the second five-story residential building, medical unit, and canteen with landscaping of the territory in the Lunacharsky nursing home, the two-story residential building with adjacent landscaping in the Braslavsky nursing home, and the canteen in the Ratsivsky nursing home, which began in 2012. In the Maksimovsky nursing home, it is planned to improve the territory and begin capital repairs of internal water supply and sewage systems.
In addition, it is planned to open a small-capacity enhanced comfort department at the Vitebsk nursing home, and in the Voronovsky general type nursing home, Dunilovichsky, Gluboksky, and Maksimovsky psychoneurological nursing homes, to organize the provision of special residential premises for short-term and temporary residence of citizens.
In general, throughout the network of nursing homes, it is planned to replace outdated technological equipment in canteens and laundries, create new and expand existing rehabilitation facilities for social, labor, and medical rehabilitation of residents.
Social services for the elderly and disabled in the Vitebsk region are provided by 15 stationary social service institutions, which house 3.4 thousand people, including 2.4 thousand in psychoneurological nursing homes, 770 in general type nursing homes, and 270 for children.
for disabled people with psychophysical developmental disabilities. In 2012, Br59.5 billion was allocated to the region for the implementation of measures under the subprogram "Development of stationary social service institutions". The measures taken to improve the health and quality of life of elderly people in nursing homes have increased their average life expectancy to over 80 years.