THE WORK THE HEALTH PEOPLES COMMISSARIAT OF THE RSFSR AND N.A. SEMASHKO ON THE ORGANIZATION OF SANATORIUM CARE IN THE FIRST YEARS OF THE SOVIET REGIME
This article discusses the first steps of the health people''s Commissariat of the RSFSR for the development of domestic resorts. The author gives a generalized characteristic of the difficulties in the first years of the Soviet regime. Under the Soviet regime the resorts of the former Russian Empire became available for workers. Sanatorium features belonged to the People''s Commissariat after its confluence with the Main Military Medical Administration. Resort Central Commission for the resorts study and an independent structure "spa stations", i.e. resorts group for the needs of the Red Army, were created. Since 1922, methodical support of activity of health resorts and edition of "On resorts Handbook", "Spa Business" magazine was begun. In 1924, 1000 sanatorium beds were transferred to the Central Social Security Administration and the same - for rent to other agencies. Some categories of workers and employees, disabled workers and front, students, children and adolescents were treated for free, at the expense of the state budget. By 1926 all the Soviet republics formed the bodies for management of the resorts. In 1927, the People''s Commissars of the RSFSR reorganized the administration of trusts resort or spa association with the approval of the Charter and great autonomy. There were spa department who prepared the patients for the trip to the resort and to ensure continuity in the work of urban medical and spa facilities. In large cities, accounting offices of sanatorium treatment results began to open.