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Belarus’ PM visits traumatology and orthopedics center as part of Our Children campaign

MINSK, 22 December (BelTA) Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko visited the national traumatology and orthopedics center as part of the country’s nationwide charity campaign Our Children on 22 December, BelTA has learned.

Roman Golovchenko extended Christmas and New Year greetings to the children who are receiving treatment in the center and will soon go home. The prime minister brought them gifts. “Wizards are not only Grandfather Frost and Snow Maiden, but also doctors who treat you, make your healthy,” he said. The prime minister wished the children to be healthy and return home as soon as possible.

According to him, the center boasts highly-qualified professionals. “Here we see the miracles that have been created not by some fairytale characters, our Belarusian doctors,” Roman Golovchenko said.

Children gave the prime minister handmade toys.

Roman Golovchenko was also shown an operating room where surgeries are performed for injuries and severe congenital and acquired deformities of the musculoskeletal system in children.

The prime minister thanked the personnel of the traumatology and orthopedics center for their work and extended Christmas and New Year greetings. Roman Golovchenko gave head of the center Mikhail Gerasimenko a certificate for the purchase of motor systems, which will be used for high-tech surgical interventions in children and adults with minimal risk of damage to the surrounding soft tissues.

The New Year charity campaign Our Children has been held annually in Belarus since 1995. Its main aim is to provide help and support to children who are in need. Representatives of the authorities and public associations visit orphanages, foster and adoptive families, family-type children's homes, families raising disabled children, developmental education and rehabilitation centers and children's hospitals. New Year festivities for children are organized in the Belarusian capital and all the country’s regions.

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