About the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium Treatment of the Population

About the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium Treatment of the Population 

The Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium-Resort Treatment of the Population (hereinafter - the Center) was established in accordance with Resolution No. 1225 of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of September 17, 1997 "On the formation of the Republican Center for Health-Improvement and Sanatorium-Resort Treatment of the population"  

The Center is a state institution implementing the state policy in the field of sanatorium-resort treatment and rehabilitation of the population, and reports to the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus 

The center is headed by a director appointed and dismissed by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus. 

The center has 7 representative offices:

1.       Brest Regional Department of the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium Treatment of the Population, Brest, ul. Dzerzhinsky, 14;

2.       Vitebsk Regional Department of the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium Treatment of the Population, Vitebsk, ul. Gogol, 2;

3.       Gomel Regional Department of the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium-Resort Treatment of the Population, Gomel, ul. Soviet, 28;

4.       Grodno Regional Department of the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Spa Treatment of the population, Grodno, ul. Socialist, 10;

5.       Minsk Regional Department of the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Spa Treatment of the Population, Minsk, pl. Freedom, 23;

6.       Minsk City Administration of the Republican Center for Health Promotion and Sanatorium-Resort Treatment of the Population, Minsk, ul. May Day, 18;

7.       Mogilev Regional Department of the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium-Resort Treatment of the Population, Mogilyov, per. 3rd October, 9.

The main activities of the Center are:

  • ensuring the organization of rehabilitation and sanatorium-resort treatment of the population at the expense of the republican budget and state social insurance funds;
  • organizing, in cooperation with republican state administration bodies, local executive and administrative bodies, public and other organizations, improving the health of the population using subsidies from the state social insurance funds;
  • coordination of the activities of the republican bodies of state administration, local executive and administrative bodies, public associations and other owners (owners) of sanatorium-resort and health-improving organizations in the sphere of sanatorium-resort treatment and health improvement of the population;
  • organization of children's health, planning the volume of children's health in health camps, sports camps using state social insurance funds and funds from the republican budget (as agreed with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Emergency Situations), as well as planning the size of state social insurance funds to reduce the cost of one trips to recreation camps with round-the-clock and day stay of children (as agreed with the Ministry Twomey Labor and Social Welfare and the Ministry of Finance);
  • ensuring timely allocation of subsidies from the state social insurance funds to student sanatoria-preventoriums in the amount established by the Center in consultation with the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus

In accordance with the assigned tasks, the Center performs the following functions:

- participation on behalf of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus in the development of drafts of normative legal acts in the field of organization of sanatorium-resort treatment and rehabilitation of the population, activities of sanatorium-resort and recreational organizations;

- participation in the prescribed manner in the preparation of proposals on the procedure and amount of the allocation and distribution of funds from the republican budget and state social insurance funds for the organization of rehabilitation and sanatorium-resort treatment of the population;

- The organization of the state certification of sanatorium, health and other organizations, one of whose activities is the improvement of the population;

- development and approval of exemplary staff standards of medical, pedagogical and other employees of sanatorium and resort organizations;

- provision of general management of the representative offices of the Center;

- holding conferences, meetings, symposia, seminars on the organization of rehabilitation and sanatorium-resort treatment of the population;

- consideration of appeals of the republican government bodies, local executive and administrative bodies, organizations and individuals.