From the History of the Restoration of Health Care in the Kursk Region (1944–1950)

Relevance. The article deals with the restoration of health care in the Kursk region at the end of the Great Patriotic War and the first post-war years. The experience gained during this time in the restoration and development of health care in a largely extreme situation that required maximum concentration of forces and resources has a certain relevance and value at the present time, when the country and the whole world are struggling with the coronavirus epidemic and issues of health development have come to the fore.
The purpose. To study the main directions of restoration and development of health care in the Kursk region in 1944-1955.
Objectives: establish the size of the material damage caused to the health care of the Kursk region during the war; identify the problems and difficulties associated with the development of health care, the measures taken and the main results of achieving this goal.
Methodology. The author of the article in the study of this topic is based on the principles of historicism, consistency and scientific objectivity. All this involves a balanced, comprehensive study of the studied archival documents and published sources using problem-chronological and system-structural methods. In addition, fundamental analytical methods were used, including analysis, synthesis, and comparison. This made it possible to objectively assess the problems, main directions and results of the restoration of health care in the Kursk region at the end of the Great Patriotic War and the first post-war years.
Results. On the basis of archival documents, which are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, the article reveals the main problems faced by the Soviet health care in the regions that were occupied and became places of fierce battles of the Great Patriotic War, during the restoration of the destroyed immediately after the liberation and in the first post-war years. The main factors that made it possible to achieve the solution of the main tasks of restoring health care in the shortest possible time and the results of this activity were identified.
Conclusion. The author concludes that despite the existing difficulties and shortcomings, in the post-war years, a great deal of work was carried out to restore and further develop the health care of the Kursk region.

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