A comprehensive medical examination for veterans of the Great Patriotic War has concluded in the Vitebsk region

April 2, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. A comprehensive medical examination of disabled persons and participants of the Great Patriotic War has been completed in the Vitebsk region, Deputy Head of the Healthcare Department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Sergey Tsirkin informed a BELTA correspondent. 3,783 disabled persons and participants of the Great Patriotic War, as well as 7,518 former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, all citizens belonging to these categories, underwent the examination. Individual medical rehabilitation programs have been developed for them, regulating medical, drug, and sanatorium-resort treatment, as well as prosthetics and hearing aid fitting. 835 disabled persons and participants of the war, 463 former concentration camp prisoners received inpatient treatment. To improve inpatient care for veterans, 186 wards for disabled persons of the Great Patriotic War with 452 beds have been allocated in the region's hospitals. More than 1.5 thousand disabled persons of the Great Patriotic War are under dispensary observation in the region's medical institutions. In the Vitebsk region, the survey of living and housing conditions of veterans and disabled persons of the Great Patriotic War continues. By order of the regional executive committee, assistance will be provided to all in need during April. According to data from the beginning of the current year, 6,735 veterans of the Great Patriotic War lived in the Vitebsk region. -0-