Socio-psychological aspects of rehabilitation of the liquidators of the Chernobyl accident in the conditions of the S. S. Karatai rehabilitation center of the Republic of Tatarstan EMERCOM
Having been operating for more than 29 years, the Republican Rehabilitation Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Tatarstan named after Sh. S. Karatai conducts comprehensive medical and psychological rehabilitation of rescuers of emergency rescue units, employees of the State Border Service, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, veterans of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, participants and invalids of regional military conflicts (participants in hostilities in Chechnya and Afghanistan), employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, medical staff of radiotherapy rooms diagnostics, radiation therapy, emergency doctors, and forensic medical examination.
Liquidators of the Chernobyl accident, Mayak software, veterans of special risk units, family members of these categories and displaced persons also receive treatment at the Center, as a result of radiation disasters there are significant changes in their mental state caused by the impact of a complex of physical factors of the accident and psychological stress.
From 1997 to the first quarter of 2026, 9532 people who faced a radiation problem underwent rehabilitation at the Center.
Every year, the number of LCHNPP participants who come to the Center to improve their health is steadily decreasing. If 158 liquidators were rehabilitated in 2010, then 80 people were rehabilitated in 2015, and 48 patients in 2025.
The peculiarity of rehabilitation of this category of persons is that if many institutions of the city and the republic provide medical care, then social assistance is not within the competence of medical institutions. And as practice shows, these patients often have problems with socio-medical, socio-economic, and socio-legal issues throughout their lives.