7 November, Sharkovshchina /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. Over Br200 billion has been invested in the construction and reconstruction of healthcare facilities in the Vitebsk region in January-October. This was announced today by the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Alexander Kosinets, at the opening ceremony of the Sharkovshchina Central District Hospital, as reported by a BELTA correspondent. "In 2012, approximately Br300 billion is allocated for construction, reconstruction, capital and current repairs of healthcare facilities in the region. Over Br200 billion has been invested in 10 months," said Alexander Kosinets, noting that significant investments in the healthcare system have allowed for the commissioning of 62 facilities this year. These include Children's Polyclinic No. 2 with an extension on Chkalov Street in Vitebsk. Some premises have been modernised: in Vitebsk City Clinical Polyclinic No. 3 – for the installation of X-ray equipment; in Vitebsk City Central Polyclinic No. 1 – for the placement of the "Pulmoscan 760" X-ray diagnostic system; in the Regional Oncology Centre – for the installation of computed and magnetic resonance tomographs, and a linear accelerator. The maternity hospital building in Orsha, the department of the Vitebsk Regional Centre for Psychiatry and Narcology, and the children's consultation of Beshenkovichi Central District Hospital have also been reconstructed. 26 rural facilities have been repaired. Medical facilities in Ushachi, Polotsk, and the Postavy district have also undergone transformations. Currently, the construction of a polyclinic in the Yug-7 microdistrict in Vitebsk, the reconstruction of the building of the Regional Children's Clinical Hospital, Vitebsk City Central Clinical Hospital on Gorky Street, the main building in Novopolotsk, the building of the therapeutic department of City Hospital No. 1 named after Semashko in Orsha, and the modernisation of the Regional Clinical Hospital and Bogushevsk Regional Tuberculosis Hospital are ongoing. Reconstruction work on the therapeutic department of Vitebsk City Emergency Medical Care Hospital and the "Trud" factory building for a blood transfusion station, as well as the modernisation of the operating block and anaesthesiology department of Vitebsk Regional Clinical Children's Hospital, etc., are nearing completion.