DUSHANBE, August 18, Asia-Plus — Tajik medical workers mark their professional holiday today.
On occasion of this event, health Minister Ranokhon Abdurahmonova, Tajik Medical University Chancellor Ubaidullo Qurbonov and a number of senior representatives from the Dushanbe health directorate laid wreaths at the monument of great Tajik polymath, physician, astronomer, logician, mathematician and philosopher Abu Ali Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna.
A cereminal meeting to mark medical workers’ professional holiday will be held in the building of the Ministry of Health (MoH) today afternoon.
Abumuslim Temurov, the head of the Dushanbe health directorate, said in an interview with Asia-Plus that this year, Tajikistan’s national budget has provided 13.5766 million somonis for enhancement of the country’s health sector, which is 3 million somonis more than in 2006.
According to him, the building of the Dushanbe emergency hospital has been repaired this year, and it has received 13 ambulances.
“Major repairs to the capital emergency hospital have been made and new 13 ambulances have been purchased due to $4.9 million provided by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), 750,000 somonis provided from the country’s budget and 270,000 somonis provided from the Dushanbe budget,” the Dushanbe health directorate head said, adding that a $928,000 computer topography was purchased for the capital health directorate
Temurov noted that more than 14,000 physicians and more than 20,000 nurses now work with medical facilities in Tajikistan.
In Tajikistan, a Medical Worker Day is marked on occasion of birthday of Abu Ali Ibn Sina.
