Healthcare facilities in the Vitebsk region will receive equipment worth more than Br200 billion in 2012.

April 26, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. Healthcare facilities in the Vitebsk region will receive more than Br200 billion worth of equipment and medical devices in 2012 from all sources of funding. This was announced today at a meeting of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee by the chairman of the regional executive committee, Alexander Kosinets, BELTA correspondent reports. The governor demanded that the purchased equipment comply with modern trends in the development of medicine. The head of the healthcare department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Yuri Derkach, named a linear accelerator for the regional oncology dispensary and 88 ambulances for emergency medical teams among the most significant acquisitions funded by the regional budget. The region will receive a tomograph for the regional children's clinical hospital worth Br12 billion, as well as a radiotherapy complex, a mammograph, and video endoscopic equipment for the oncology service, funded by the republican budget. In total, Br97.1 billion is allocated for equipping the region with medical equipment under state programs, and Br15 billion for medical supplies. Technical re-equipment of the industry and strengthening the material base of healthcare institutions have created conditions in the region for a steady decrease in overall mortality in 2011 by 3.7% and mortality in the working-age population by 1.5%. In the first quarter of the current year, the decrease in overall mortality was 9.7%, and in the working-age population - 19.9%. -0-