Results of the Gomel region's work on organizing spa treatment and health improvement for the population in 2025

20-February-2026

Based on the 2025 results, 149,666 citizens of the Gomel Region were provided with spa treatment and health improvement using funds from the republican budget and the budget of the state extra-budgetary social protection fund. A total of 100.3 million rubles of state funds were used to implement these programs.

5,237 unemployed citizens were provided with spa treatment using vouchers purchased from the republican budget, including 1,333 disabled persons of groups I, II, and other categories entitled to free, priority, and priority spa treatment, and 3,904 veterans of labor and disabled persons of group III. Sixty unemployed retired law enforcement officers were provided with spa treatment. A total of 2,996 working citizens received spa treatment using vouchers purchased from the state extra-budgetary social protection fund, including 2,063 adults and 933 parents with children. 1,969 children received spa treatment at children's sanatoriums using funds from the republican budget, and 1,041 children with a parent received spa treatment at sanatoriums.

The focus is on improving the health of children with disabilities. In 2025, 919 children with disabilities were provided with spa treatment vouchers, including:

- 544 children using republican budget funds for vouchers for children with disabilities;

- 321 children using republican budget funds allocated to overcome the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster;

- 54 children were treated for vouchers for adults and children, issued at the parent's place of work, using funds from the republican budget.

One of the priority tasks of the Gomel Region is to provide spa treatment and rehabilitation to citizens affected by the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.

In 2025, the following were provided for spa treatment and rehabilitation using funds from the republican budget allocated for overcoming the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster:

103 disabled persons of groups I and II as a result of the Chernobyl disaster (Article 18 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant);

1,694 preschool-age children and 1,656 accompanying parents;

56,511 children living or studying in educational institutions in radioactively contaminated areas were provided with organized groups, accompanied by 4,681 teaching staff, including 35,881 children studying in educational institutions in the city of Gomel and 20,630 children in districts of the Gomel region.

1,000 children attended 24-hour educational and health camps during the summer.

Eighty children from the Gomel region affected by the Chernobyl disaster were also provided with health care, funded by the Union State budget.

An important area of the representative office's work is organizing health care for children during the school holidays in educational and health camps and sports and health camps. In 2025, 2,416 camps were organized in the Gomel region, covering various fields and areas of activity, providing health care to 72,770 children, including 1,431 children with disabilities. The Gomel Regional Office of the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium-Resort Treatment of the Population achieved its planned volumes of spa treatment and health improvement for the region's population in 2025.

The planned target for achieving the target indicators of the State Program for Overcoming the Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster for 2021-2025 in the Gomel Region for 2025 was 100.7 percent fulfilled.

On January 30, 2026, a final regional meeting was held, attended by Tatsiana Kuzniatsova, Deputy Head of the Financing, Accounting, and Reporting Department of the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium-Resort Treatment of the Population. During the meeting, Vasili Zubets, head of the representative office, presented the results of the Gomel Regional Office of the Republican Center for Health and Sanatorium-Resort Treatment of the Population for 2025 and outlined the objectives for 2026. He expressed gratitude to the representative office's leading specialists for their proactive and conscientious work in fulfilling these objectives.