About Br50 billion will be allocated for the renovation of hospitals in the Vitebsk region in 2010-2011

September 8, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. About Br50 billion will be allocated from local budgets for the repair and reconstruction of medical institutions in the Vitebsk region in 2010-2011, Deputy Head of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Healthcare Department Andrey Andryushkin told a BELTA correspondent. Over the next eighteen months, the buildings of 18 central district hospitals will be renovated. This year, the Bogushevsk hospital has already received a renovated building, and repair work at the Rossonskaya Central Hospital will be completed soon. In addition, significant funds are being allocated for the reconstruction of medical institutions in Vitebsk. In particular, Br2 billion has been allocated for the overhaul of the regional infectious diseases hospital, the children's central polyclinic, and the children's regional hospital, Br1 billion for the repair of departments in the emergency hospital, and about Br5 billion for repair work at the regional clinical hospital. Along with regional, city, and district hospitals, medical institutions in agro-towns are being repaired. This year, 65 villages in the region are preparing to receive the status of agro-towns. In all of them, paramedic and obstetric stations, district hospitals, and nursing care hospitals will be renovated and equipped with modern facilities. The Vitebsk region has 102 outpatient clinics and 111 institutions providing 24-hour inpatient medical care, with a total of 13,190 beds. -0-