Improving the health of children in the Gomel region in health camps

15-July-2022

In the Gomel region, for the 1st and 2nd shifts of the 2022 summer campaign, 18 round-the-clock health camps were organized for a stay of at least 18 days (8 stationary camps, 10 on a rented base, including 1 health camp based on the SCUE "Sanatorium" Silver Keys " and 1 sports and health camp on the basis of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise "Sanatorium" Golden Sands "), 66 round-the-clock camps for a stay of 9 days; 760 day camps. Of the total number of camps, 167 work and rest day stays.

      In just two shifts, 30,732 children improved their health:

- in round-the-clock camps - 6539 children;

- in day camps - 24193 children.

      Of these, 822 are orphans, 357 are disabled children and 856 are children registered with the Inspectorate for Juvenile Affairs who are in a socially dangerous situation.

     The work of 158 work and rest camps was organized, where 2328 teenagers worked and rested.

      With the assistance of the Committee on Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee, jobs were created for students in various types of activities with wages. The types of work that teenagers performed: sewing stage costumes, bed linen, landscaping school grounds, repairing school furniture, making boxes for seedlings of flowers, screens for batteries, weeding flower beds, working in a nursery, caring for garden and forest plantings, and others.

      In labor and recreation camps in the Gomel region, teenagers were able to earn from 20.00 rubles to 280.00 rubles.

       The Main Department of Education of the Gomel Regional Executive Committee coordinated and approved the programs of educational work of the summer health campaign. A regional plan of organizational and practical measures was developed and approved within the framework of the project of the interdepartmental program "Summer for the benefit of 2022". The peculiarity of the regional project in 2022 is that the number of events of civil-patriotic, military-patriotic and local history areas has been increased.

      Events dedicated to the announced Year of Historical Memory have become one of the priorities in planning work in health camps.

      So, for example, on June 22, 2022, rallies, talks, and themed evenings dedicated to the Day of National Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War on June 22 were held in almost all camps. In the recreation camp "Seagull" on the basis of the sanatorium "Silver Keys" the action "Candle of Memory" was held at 4.00 am on the monument to the Dnieper flotilla, the participants of which were senior detachments.

      In the Gomel region, constant preventive monitoring of health camps is carried out on compliance with the requirements of sanitary and epidemiological well-being, fire safety, nutritional standards, and others. The Gomel Regional Executive Committee approved a schedule of trips to health camps with round-the-clock stay in the summer in order to monitor the progress of children's recovery and provide methodological assistance. The group includes specialists from the sanitary service, the education department, and representative offices. The recommendations of the working groups are taken into account by the owners of health camps and implemented immediately.

       The organizers of health camps have taken measures to ensure the safety of life and health of children, their safe stay in the camps.