Minsk region health camps will be ready to receive children from the first days of June, BelTA learned from the Republican Center for Sanitation and Health Resort Treatment.

According to experts, special attention is paid to the timely and qualitative preparation of camps for the summer health season - sanitary and hygienic standards, safety and fire safety requirements must be fully observed.

For the preparation of health camps in the Minsk region by the summer season, the representation of the Minsk regional administration of the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium and Spa Treatment of the Population is allocated Br72 thousand. Staff are being recruited for all types of camps and teachers are being trained for work. All health camps will be provided with methodical recommendations on health improvement of schoolchildren.

53 620 children (37.6% of the total number of students) are planning to improve their health in the Minsk region during the summer holidays, of which 21 835 - in camps with round the clock stay, 31 785 - in camps with a day stay.

The regional health campaign of 2017 will be held during the republican action "Summer - time of discovery". The main goal of the action is to organize health improvement and employment of minors of different age groups, to maximize the summer time for the development of the personality of children, their abilities and opportunities. In the districts of the Minsk region, work will be organized for sports camps, profile camps with a linguistic bias, tourism and local lore studies, for highly motivated children, military patriotic, labor and recreation, as well as tent camps.