Pinsk dwellers wanting to perpetuate the memory of a deputy

1,500 people signed the appeal to the House of Representatives to install the memorial board in the honour of Anatol Volkau at the building of the outpatient clinic.

The consulting support to the town residents in drawing up the appeal was provided by the Movement for Freedom (the MFF) activist Yuras Bakhtsierau.

The deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the 12th and the 13th convocations, the assistant professor, the philosophy doctor Anatol Volkau died early this year. Pinsk residents addressed the current deputies asking to perpetuate the name of their fellow countryman. They propose to install the memorial board at the building of the Central Outpatient Clinic that exists today mostly owing to Volkau’s deputy activity.

It was Volkau who managed to transfer the property of the former military residential community to the disposal of the State Committee on Charnobyl in 1993. The efforts of the deputy of the Supreme Soviet helped use the building, formerly occupied by the navy’s study detachment, to create the regional diagnostics centre to help the citizens who suffered from the consequences of the Charnobyl Atomic Power Plant accident.

Volkau managed to receive free supply of the centre with the state-of-the-art diagnostics and medical equipment by a Japanese sponsor. The residents of the Palessie region got the possibility to perform health checkup with no need of going to Minsk.

Today, the building of the diagnostics centre is occupied by the Pinsk Central Town Outpatient Clinic where the town dwellers are still receiving the medical aid. Pinsk residents remember the deputy who always responded to the needs of people, and still call this medical institution the “Volkau Centre”.

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