DUSHANBE, November 21, 2009, Asia-Plus — The government has paid a special attention to training of medical specialists and settlement of problems facing health sector in recent years, President Emomali Rahmon remarked at a ceremonial meeting on occasion of the 70th anniversary of Tajik Medical State University (TSMU) in Dushanbe on November 20.
“Over the last four years, the government allocated 41 million somoni for improvement of material and technical basis of TSMU, which is10 times more than in 2002-2005,” the president said.
Today, the University has 650 computers, with 150 of them being connected to Internet.
Over the last three years, 14 laboratories of TSMU have been rehabilitated and its students now may use 27 laboratories.
Rahmon noted that wages of the TSMU teaching staff have risen 17 times since 2004.
TSMU graduates now work in more than 40 countries across the world, including Russia, Great Britain, Germany, the United States, Iran, Afghanistan, China, Turkey, India, Yemen and a number of African countries.
The president noted that TSMU must train creative and open-minded specialists having new medical thinking and being well aware of achievements of the world medical science and advanced technologies.
Established in 1939, TSMU now consists of four faculties and 63 departments. 5,886 students, including more than 500 students from 16 foreign countries, are currently studying at TSMU. 81 doctors of sciences and 201 candidates of sciences now work with Tajik Medical State University. Over the past seventy years, the University has trained more than 30,000 specialists.
