Return to Druskininkai

22-December-2021

On November 20, the sanatorium "Belarus" in the Lithuanian Druskininkai, after a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, accepted the first Belarusian children for spa treatment. These lucky ones turned out to be 76 children from the Grodno region. In early April 2020, after the closure of the Lithuanian border, Belarusian children were forced to interrupt their recovery in this sanatorium and return home. And this pause in the recovery of Belarusians dragged on for as much as a year and a half. In addition to the ongoing pandemic, European economic sanctions were applied to the sanatorium, and in December 2020, the sanatorium completely ceased its main activities.

And only in July of this year, after the transfer of the health resort to the operational subordination of the Republican Center for Recreation and Sanatorium-Resort Treatment of the Population, financial accounts were unblocked and it became possible to again accept the population for treatment. And immediately a long and difficult work began on organizing a referral of Belarusian children to Druskininkai.

“The resumption of the referral of Belarusian children to sanatorium-resort treatment in the sanatorium“ Belarus ”is an important event. For the first time in the last two years, the children's population of Belarus has the opportunity to improve health and undergo a course of sanatorium-and-spa treatment in this sanatorium. This is the result of the joint intensive work of our center with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus and other interested parties, "said Gennady Bolbatovsky, director of the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium-Resort Treatment of the Population.

The first group of 76 people was formed from children of different ages from the Grodno region. They were taken to Lithuania on two buses, accompanied by adults. They will spend three weeks in the sanatorium - healing with miraculous mineral springs, healing mud and life-giving air of pine forests will take place without interrupting their studies. At the same time, vouchers for children are free - at the expense of the state.
In the next race, young Vitebsk residents will join the children from the Grodno region. They will leave for Druskininkai on December 11th.