In late 2011, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov signed a resolution
that streamlined the further deepening of reforms in healthcare for the next
three years. UT correspondents review the biggest initiatives to be
implemented in 2012.
UT’s
new project, ‘Responding to Queries. Healthcare’ receives first questions: the
readers inquire about the outcomes and prospects of undertakings. UT correspondents
redirected questions to experts and got the detailed answers.
Specialists
of the Republican Specialized Scientific and Practical Center
of Therapy and Medical Rehabilitation developed a method of diagnosing painless
ischemia and hibernating myocardium in patients with chronic heart failure.
Scientists
of Namangan State University
have applied for patenting of the method of obtaining a new water-soluble drug
against iron deficiency anemia they have developed.
Leading centers will turn
into joint stock companies
Uzbekistan has started introduction of a new form of governance
and organization of national health care. Republican specialized centers of eye
microsurgery, therapy and medical rehabilitation, urology, obstetrics and
gynecology, cardiology, and surgery will incorporate in 2012-2013.
Abdurashid
Rakhmanov qualified as a cardiologist upon the graduation of medical institute.
However, his professional career took another turn: he became a Director at Hirudology
Research Centre of the Ministry of Health and he devotes all his work time to
not just treating patients by well-known methods of leechcraft, but also the
development of new medicines.
Scientists of Republican Research
Center of Neurosurgery developed
prototypes and clinically tested samples of the first domestic inter-body
fixers of banana type.
Healthcare 
