According to Depo. Kharkov in the press service of the Kharkov regional administration, told about this and. Head of the Department of Health Protection Galina Siroshtan.

According to her data, as of January 1, 2018, 11,291 ATU participants were registered in the Kharkiv region, 6,552 of them in the region and 4,739 in Kharkiv.

Demobilized servicemen and members of their families undergo preventive medical examinations by specialists in 12 specialties. In 2017, 6,414 people were examined, or 73% of the registered ones, including 4,650 (98%) in the districts of the region, 1,764 (43%) in Kharkov.

"At 20% of the examined for the first time pathologies are revealed, on a dispensary account it is taken almost 3 thousand persons.

Inpatient treatment in health facilities of all levels was subject to 820 military, 562 persons were treated, others refused treatment. Outpatient treatment needed 1,262 demobilized, 948 people were treated, including in day hospitals, "- said Sirostan.

Also during medical examinations it was found that 729 people need dental prosthetics. In addition, all eight participants of the ATU, who need hearing aids and cataracts, received treatment.

Almost two thousand individual and group sessions with psychologists were held on the basis of a hospital for veterans of war.