In April of this year a voter wrote to me asking for help getting a place in a sanatorium for her granddaughter, born in 2003, who had been diagnosed with a kidney disease. I sent an official request to the head of the town in which the lady lived. The reply stated that the little girl had been treated in a health resort in November 2007 free of charge, together with her mother. The Ministry of Health and Social Development Order No.256 of 22 November 2004 on the Procedure for Medical Selection and Referral of Patients for Health Resort Treatment recommends that health resort treatment be taken once per year. On behalf of the head of the town the lady had been informed that the girl would have to undergo a health centre examination before being issued with a certificate for resort treatment in 2008 (on condition that such treatment was not inadvisable on medical grounds). The examination showed that there the treatment was not inadvisable, and I’m pleased to report that mother and child have been given a voucher for a sanatorium in Krasnodar Region.