GOMEL, 26 September (BelTA) – Belarus makes it into the world's top three in access to healthcare, First Deputy Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich told BelTA. He is attending a conference of ambulance-situation healthcare workers in Gomel on 25-26 September. Not long ago Belarus' healthcare system was ranked 42nd of 51 nations assessed by Bloomberg in its annual report Bloomberg Ranking: Most Efficient Health Care 2014. "Belarus in the list goes above many economically developed...

GOMEL, 19 September (BelTA) – The fifth international festival of fire theaters will take place in Gomel during the City Day celebrations on 20 September. It will be the culmination of the festivities in the oblast capital, BelTA learned from the organization committee. Taking part in the fire show this year will be teams from Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. The audience will be offered a breathtaking show that will combine comedy, circus stunts and theatrical performances. Taking part in...

MINSK, 12 September (BelTA) – The 2nd congress of doctors providing outpatient services will be held in Gomel on 25-26 September, BelTA learned from the Health Ministry of Belarus. Taking part in the congress will be over 500 specialists working in outpatient clinics, including foreign delegates from the CIS and non-CIS states. The program features plenary and break-out sessions, symposiums, and master classes. The participants of the session will discuss the provision of multi-type...

GOMEL, 5 September (BelTA) – The commercial extraction of oil from tight reservoirs at horizontal well No. 310g of the Rechitsa deposit has begun for the first time in the history of the Belarusian oil industry, the press service of the Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft told BelTA. The oil well uses the previously detected Petrikov-Yelets field of the Rechitsa deposit. For a long time this field was believed to be unrecoverable since the appropriate technology was not available. It...

PETRIKOV, 29 August (BelTA) – The ceremony to place the first stone to mark the start of the construction of the Petrikov mining and processing factory took place at the site of the Petrikov deposit of potassium salts on 27 August, BelTA has learned. OAO Belaruskali Director General Valery Kiriyenko told media that the first phase of the factory will be commissioned in December 2019 while the designed capacity will be reached in December 2021. The factory's output capacity will be at...

GOMEL, 22 August (BelTA) – A summer camp for ethnographers is taking place in Petrikov District, Gomel Oblast, on 19-22 August. The summer camp is held within the framework of the international festival of ethnic and cultural traditions Call of Polesie. The festival will take place in the agrotown of Lyaskovichi on 13 September, BelTA learned from the organizing committee of the festival. Every year experts in Belarusian folk art flock to Petrikov District to take part in the summer...

GOMEL, 15 August (BelTA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Belarusian Red Cross Society (BRCS) are ready to provide assistance to Ukrainian people who were forced to leave their homes, head of the ICRC programs on family links restoration and migration Andrei Nechai said as he visited Gomel on 14 August, BelTA has learned. In his words, refugees from the south-east of Ukraine continue coming to Russia and Belarus. The ICRC is monitoring the situation in the...

GOMEL, 8 August (BelTA) – The international festival and ethnocultural traditions Zov Polesyia will be held in the agro-town of Lyaskovichi, Petrikov District, Gomel Oblast on 23 August. This year the festival has acquired the international status, BelTA learnt from the organizing committee of the event. The forum will gather participants from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Moldova. Belarus will be prenseted at the festival by eight districts of Gomel Oblast (Zhitkovichi, Yelsk,...

GOMEL, 1 august (BelTA) – Teacher from Gomel Yulia Filonenko took second place in the competition on the best history lesson among young teachers, World War One on the map of the Union State. The award ceremony was held at the Moscow Lomonosov State University, BelTA learnt from the Gomel City Hall. The competition was won by Anna Abasheva from Kaluga with her theme, The Role of the individual in war events. Teacher from Gomel Yulia Filonenko prenseted her work, The City on the...

MINSK, 25 July (BelTA) – The first foreign investor has bought a stake in Gomel Fat-Processing Plant to the amount of nearly $10,000, BelTA learnt from the Agency of Business Relations.