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Palanga Children’s Rehabilitation Sanatorium “Palangos gintaras” is situated in the southern part of Palanga township, at the wonderful Baltic seaside.
Palanga, as a summer resort, is known since the early 18th century. As early as in 1830, the press wrote about people coming to Palanga for medical treatment from Vilnius region, Poland, Belarus, and other districts.
From old days, Palanga is famous for its magnificent park, Count Tiskevicius Palace, in which an Amber Museum was established in 1963.
Today’s Palanga is one of the most popular and famous Lithuanian resorts, offering both rest and medical treatment, health improvement.
Natural resources – sunbathes, iodine-laden air and fresh scents of the pine-woods, sea, sandy beaches, beneficial combination of positive and negative ions, treatment administered in the rehabilitation sanatorium tone, harden the body, and raise body’s resistance to illness, normalise child’s psychophysical processes, metabolism, help to restore child’s lost strength, prevent disability, or reduce its possibility. Children with disability and their parents or family members accompanying them will find our sanatorium a perfect place for medical treatment, meeting friends of the same fate, for adaptation, and starting reintegration of a young patient with disability into society.
14 years ago, the rehabilitation sanatorium was an unknown recently established Children’s Health Centre, accepting for treatment several hundred young patients per year. Currently, the “Palangos gintaras” is a widely known Children’s rehabilitation sanatorium administering successful medical treatment, having medical and material base, with the staff of over 200 people. Staff of the Sanatorium consists of physical medicine and rehabilitation doctors, paediatricians, children’s psychiatrists, reflex therapists, kinezitherapists, ergo-therapists, social workers, special pedagogy specialist - speech therapy specialists, psychologists, dentist, children’s nurses, and other staff. If needed, patients are consulted by otorhinolaryngologists, surgeon, and other specialists.
The Sanatorium consists of an integral complex of buildings interconnected by heated corridors. Patients are accommodated in double rooms with conveniences. There are rest rooms with TV, various table games. School-age children attend a school near the Sanatorium.
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