All homeless people in Vitebsk will be screened for tuberculosis, re-clothed, and fed on March 25-26

March 18, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. The republican anti-tuberculosis campaign "White Chamomile" will be held in the Vitebsk region from March 25 to 27. This was announced by the chairman of the October district organization of Vitebsk of the Belarusian Red Cross Society, Mikhail Gusachenko, today at a press conference dedicated to World Tuberculosis Day, BELTA correspondent reports. Traditionally, the main events of the campaign will be a free film screening at the House of Cinema on March 24, outreach work by volunteers of the Belarusian Red Cross Society, as well as mobile express fluorography, which residents of the regional center will be able to undergo this year near the Evikom trading house from 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM. In addition, as part of the campaign on March 25-26, employees of the Vitebsk Regional Clinical Tuberculosis Dispensary, together with representatives of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee and Red Cross volunteers, plan to examine for tuberculosis, provide clean clothes, and issue food rations to all homeless people in the regional center. Preparations for this campaign have already begun. For example, unnecessary clothing is being collected from the public at the Red Cross organizations, Mikhail Gusachenko noted. He also added that, according to the Department of Internal Affairs, there are about 5 dozen homeless citizens in the city. Another category that the "White Chamomile" campaign will focus on will be children and adolescents in the Vitebsk region who have or have had tuberculosis and are registered. In total, there are 62 such young residents in the region. Shoes will be purchased for each of them at the expense of the UN Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a representative of the Red Cross said. -0-