Events

In April 2014 the commission took a decision to consider issues related to the development of the system to provide targeted medical assistance to people suffered from radiation due to the Chernobyl catastrophe. The forthcoming meeting will discuss the strategy of organizing work in this direction. MPs will talk over problems and prospects of addressing the issues related to the improvement of mechanisms of high-technology and specialized medical assistance to the people of Belarus and Russia that suffered from the Chernobyl catastrophe.

The agenda of the meeting will also include the review of the progress made in the implementation of the joint action plan to mitigate the Chernobyl consequences in the Union State for the period through 2016.

The meeting will be held at the National Sci-Tech Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology. The Union State MPs will have an opportunity to get familiar with its best practices in diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation of people from the areas hit by the Chernobyl accident. The center was opened under the auspices of the Union State in 2002. Today it is a head organization that provides specialized medical assistance to people suffered from the Chernobyl accident.

Partaking in the meeting will be MPs of the Union State Parliamentary Assembly, representatives of the Union State Permanent Committee, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the Emergencies Ministries and Healthcare Ministries of Belarus and Russia, the government bodies of the Russian and Belarusian regions most hit by the accident, heads of the leading radiological medical centers of the two countries and Chernobyl public organizations.