The Efficiency of State Medical Program to Children with Lack of Family Care

Ketevan Gogberashvili, Karaman Pagava

Department of Pediatrics and Adolescents Medicine, Tbilisi State Medical University, 
Georgia

In Georgia there is a “State Program of Medical Help to Children without Family Care”. Objectives: to reveal the efficiency of ongoing Program on health state of institutionalized children. Material: the investigation was performed in Tbilisi Infant’s Orphanage. A retrospective analysis of 456 children’s individual cards containing medical data of period 1996-2000 was done. The age of children varied from 2 weeks to 4 years. Results: It is shown that ongoing program is effective for the institutionalized children’s health improvement, but it seems more reasonable to direct the efforts predominantly to the prevention of children’s institutionalization , to support their reintegration and fosterage.

Keywords:  state program, institutionalization, infant’s orphanage, children, growth, development