Inclusion and support: how Belarus organized summer holidays for vulnerable children

This year, as in previous years, special attention was paid to support vulnerable categories of minors. The state has fully fulfilled the task of constantly increasing the coverage of such children with rehabilitation. On September 24, Deputy Director of the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium-Resort Treatment of the Population Alexander Tsai told reporters, the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti agency reports.

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According to the expert, in the summer of this year, 12,100 orphans and children left without parental care were provided with free rest, as well as 7,100 children with disabilities (400 people more than last year’s level). For special children, a special material and technical base with an accessible environment was selected. Most often - on leased sites of leading sanatorium and resort organizations, where you can quickly provide professional medical care.

As a successful example, A. Tsai cited the experience of the capital. In Minsk, specialized group races were organized for 120 children with cardiac diseases and diabetes. Such a camp was deployed on the basis of the children's sanatorium "Sun". The children were able to rest and undergo therapy, receiving excellent feedback from families.

In addition, in the summer, a network of military-patriotic camps was organized in the republic at the bases of military units. First of all, teenagers who are in a socially dangerous position or are registered with the IDN were sent there. More than 22,000 minors were rehabilitated in such camps.