Over the first six months of this year, the health sector of Tajikistan has received little more than 860 million somoni instead of the originally planned more than 1 billion somoni, according to the Ministry of Finance (MoF).
Thus, hospitals have received about 45 million somoni less, polyclinics have received 11.2 million somoni less, health care centers have received 15.2 million somoni less, and other structures of the health sector have received about million somoni less over the reporting period.
In January-June this year, Tajikistan has reportedly reached 81.9 percent of the expenditure part target, which is equal 102 billion somoni (2.3 billion somoni or 18.1 percent fewer than it was originally planned).
Over the same six-month period, the budget’s revenues have stood at 9.8 billion somoni, which was 4.5 percent or 462.2 million somoni fewer than the refined plan.
Recall, President Emomali Rahmon in early May ordered to allocate 12.4 million somoni from President’s Reserve Fund to make additional payments to health workers.
Rahmon pledged on May 1 to double salaries for health workers over a three-month period. That means nurses earning around $45 per month take home $90 if they are involved in the front-line battle against COVID-19. Doctors, meanwhile, typically make about $120 per month.
