Already booked for the New Year holidays. Who is going to Belarus to get healthier?
News of Belarus. About 99 thousand foreigners have improved their health in Belarus by the beginning of this autumn, the News 24 Hours program reported on STV. The vast majority of them – Russians. Kazakhstan is also among the five countries whose citizens actively use the services of Belarusian health resorts.
In total, compared to 2020, the total number of people who underwent spa treatment in Belarus increased by 55%. Today it is over a million people. These figures are comparable to the pre-pandemic period. At the same time, the reservation is already underway for the New Year holidays. About a quarter of places in sanatoriums have already been booked for this period.
Gennady Bolbatovsky, Director of the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium Treatment:
If we take free freedom, we used to have a ratio of 60% – citizens of Belarus, 40% – foreign citizens. Now, of course, due to the increase in domestic demand and closed borders, the ratio of free sales is 20% – foreigners, 80% – citizens of the Republic of Belarus. Today, given the uncertainty of the epidemiological situation, in my opinion, these are good results of work, and we hope that the system will remain stable by the end of the year.
About 60 thousand Belarusian schoolchildren will also be recuperated in camps and sanatoriums during the autumn holidays. Demand in 2021 has predictably decreased. In total, more than one and a half million rubles have been allocated for the health campaign in the country.