In partnership with the Government of Turkmenistan, USAID’s three-year project “Accelerating Efforts to End Tuberculosis (TB) and Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB) in Turkmenistan”, implemented by the World Health Organization (WHO), has helped Turkmenistan achieve significant TB control milestones, including a notable reduction in TB incidence. The recent WTO global TB data for 2013-2023 showed a 10% […]
UNICEF and Ministry of Health Enhance Pediatric and Neonatal Emergency Care in Turkmenistan
38 health professionals from Ashgabat and all five velayats have stronger neonatal and pediatric emergency care skills from attending the intensive training sessions organized by UNICEF in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry. The training was facilitated by international experts, Mr. Dmitry Sankavets and Mr. Mikhail Strizhak, and took place from 4 […]
Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge nominated by Member States to serve as WHO Regional Director for Europe for a second 5-year term
Public health priorities for the coming half-decade will focus on critical areas including national health security, mental health, the climate crisis and gender-based violence Copenhagen, 30 October 2024 The Member States of the WHO European Region have nominated Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge to the office of WHO Regional Director for Europe for a second […]
Ashgabat Unveils Cutting-Edge Rehabilitation and Clinical Centers having no analogues in Central Asia
On Wednesday, October 9, the National Leader of the Turkmen people, Arkadag Berdimuhamedov, led the opening ceremonies of new medical institutions in Ashgabat – the International Health and Rehabilitation Center for 400 places and the International Scientific and Clinical Center of Physiology for 250 places. The events were tamed for the Day of Healthcare Workers […]
A Promising Future for Turkmenistan-Germany Cooperation
Stable and growing economic cooperation forms a cornerstone of the successful relationship between Germany and Turkmenistan. Today, clear trends in bilateral economic activity are fostering optimism about future prospects. Ambassador of Germany to Turkmenistan, Bernd Heinze, highlighted this in an interview with the Turkmenistan newspaper. Germany and Central Asia Germany has established a leading position […]
UNICEF Strengthens Healthcare Services in Turkmenistan with New Oxygen Plants
UNICEF, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan, has successfully installed two new oxygen plants at the Scientific and Clinical Centre for Maternal and Child Health in Ashgabat and the Mother and Child Health Hospital in Dashoguz, an area affected by the Aral Sea crisis. This support expands the oxygen […]
Turkmen Center for Public Health and Nutrition Earns Quality Management Certification
On 10 July, the Center for Public Health and Nutrition of Turkmenistan achieved a significant milestone. The Center, which subordinated to the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry, was awarded a certificate of compliance with the internationally recognized TDS ISO 9001 quality system, according to the Neutral Turkmenistan […]
International Training Course on Tuberculosis Treatment Enhances Expertise for Turkmen Specialists
In a significant step toward combating tuberculosis (TB) and improving patient care, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently hosted a five-day international training course. The course, titled “Treatment of TB, RR-TB, and TB Infection in accordance with WHO recommendations and national guidelines,” brought together TB specialists […]
The multiplier effect of investing in health
Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe Central Asia is a region with enviable potential. About half of its population of 80 million people is under the age of 30. It bridges the economic power blocs of Europe and Asia. This year GDP growth in these 5 countries is estimated to be […]
WHO Turkmenistan: Interview with the WHO Regional Director organized in the framework of the Central Asia International Health Investment Forum
In the run-up to the Central Asia International Health Investment Forum in Kyrgyzstan, the WHO Regional Director for Europe, Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge, speaks about WHO’s cooperation with the Government of Turkmenistan in the field of health, the importance of investment in health, the successes achieved and the joint work in accelerating progress towards achieving SDG […]
UNICEF and Turkmenistan Ministry of Health strengthen skills of health professionals on pediatric oxygen therapy
Ashgabat, 7 June 2024 – From 1-7 June 2024, medical specialists from intensive care units across Turkmenistan were trained on Pediatric Oxygen Therapy for Clinical Practice by UNICEF in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry at the Scientific and Clinical Centre of the Mother and Child Health in Ashgabat. Medical oxygen is […]
Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan Explore Medical Collaboration on the Sidelines of World Health Assembly
On 26 May 2024, in Geneva (Switzerland), on the sidelines of the 77th session of the World Health Assembly, Minister of Health of Kyrgyzstan Alymkadir Beishenaliyev held a meeting with Minister of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan Myrat Mammadov. During the meeting, the parties discussed issues of bilateral cooperation in the field of pharmaceuticals […]
Sustaining Iodine Sufficiency in Turkmenistan: A Story of Continuing Partnership between Government and UNICEF
During April-May this year, Ministry of Health and Medical Industry and UNICEF are monitoring the iodized salt production and availability on the markets across the country. UNICEF provided salt test kits to the State Sanitary Epidemiological Service to support salt iodization monitoring system, which allow to conduct rapid and effective salt testing on the spots. […]
UNDP Project upgraded 114 laboratories across Turkmenistan
As part of the project funded by the Government of Turkmenistan and implemented by UNDP, the installation of modern laboratory equipment has been successfully completed, and training sessions have been conducted for specialists in 10 clinical laboratories in Ahal velayat and 28 clinical laboratories in Ashgabat, UNDP Turkmenistan reports. The laboratories have also been supplied […]
Turkmenistan joins celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
European Immunization Week (21-27 April 2024) launches a year-long commemoration of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), a global initiative launched in 1974 to expand the benefits of essential WHO-recommended vaccines to all. The EPI has become one of the biggest public health successes of the 20th and 21st century, saving up to 5 million […]
New Mother and Child Health Center Opens in Mary
On April 17, 2024, a state-of-the-art Mother and Child Health Center officially opened its doors in Mary, the capital of Mary province. The center consists of two separate buildings – for mothers and children. The building for providing medical care to women is designed for 200 places and includes a maternity ward, a department of […]
WHO Country Office in Turkmenistan Hosts a Workshop on sharing experience in strengthening and digitalizing health information system and a Training course on entering data into the WHO tool for mapping health data collection and reporting forms
Availability of quality and timely health information is at the core of responsive national health system and is essential for rapid and informed decision making. Recognizing the challenges associated with collecting and processing health information can support efforts to strengthen and modernize the health information system (HIS). Conducting situation analysis to understand the flow of […]
UNDP Project Strengthens Laboratory Services in provinces of Turkmenistan
Within the framework of a project funded by the Government of Turkmenistan and implemented by UNDP, the installation of modern laboratory equipment in 14 clinical laboratories in all districts of the Balkan province and 16 clinical laboratories in all districts of the Dashoguz province has been successfully completed. Training sessions for specialists have also been […]
Call for urgent agreement on international deal to prepare for and prevent future pandemics
A high-powered intervention by 23 former national Presidents, 22 former Prime Ministers, a former UN General Secretary and 3 Nobel Laureates is being made today to press for an urgent agreement from international negotiators on a Pandemic Accord, under the Constitution of the World Health Organizaion, to bolster the world’s collective preparedness and response to […]
Turkmenistan Regions Embrace Cutting-Edge Heart Care: Endovascular Surgery Expands
Turkmen doctors in regional hospitals are mastering cutting-edge endovascular surgery, bringing advanced heart care closer to patients. This progress is fueled by active international cooperation and growing expertise within the healthcare system. A recent breakthrough at the Mary Regional Multidisciplinary Hospital’s endovascular surgery department showcases this progress. Doctors there are now conducting angiographic examinations using […]
UNDP hands over Mobile PCR lab to Health Care Ministry of Turkmenistan
UNDP has handed over a modern Mobile PCR laboratory to the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan within the project “COVID-19 response in Turkmenistan”, funded by the World Bank. The mobile laboratory is intended for rapid response and infection control teams of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Service (SES) of the MoHMI. The delivered […]
Turkmenistan’s Lab Upgrade under UNDP project enhances National Healthcare
Within the implementation of a laboratory project funded by the Government of Turkmenistan and implemented by UNDP, 19 clinical laboratories in the Mary velayat have been equipped with modern laboratory equipment for blood general, biochemistry and coagulation analysis, urine analysis, microscopy, and others. Additionally, the project has supplied clinical reagents, lab consumables and other essential […]
The United Nations Development Program in Turkmenistan continues to supply medicines for health care sector
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Turkmenistan continues to supply medicines as part of the project to control non-communicable diseases (NCDs), funded by the Government of Turkmenistan. UNDP has been handed over medicines to the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan for the treatment of cardiovascular, respiratory and neurological diseases worth a […]
Statement – COVID-19 vaccines saved at least 1.4 million lives in the European Region
Statement by Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe: Good morning, good afternoon. I’d like to wish all of you a very Happy New Year from everyone here at the WHO Regional Office for Europe. We certainly hope for a healthy and more peaceful 2024. And on that note, I’d like to […]
WHO Supports Health Education in Turkmenistan Conducting Immunization Sessions for Secondary School Students
January 16, 2024. Ashgabat, Turkmenistan – In November and December 2023, the WHO Country Office in Turkmenistan, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan and the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan, conducted a series of health education sessions on immunization and healthy lifestyles in schools in Turkmenistan. Over the course of […]
Uzbekistan Innovates with Tomato-Based COVID Vaccine
Uzbek scientists have developed a new generation vaccine against COVID-19 coronavirus infection based on genetic vectors and tomato. The tomato variety or TOMAVAC tomato vaccine was created as a result of placing a fragment of the gene encoding the S1 protein antigen of the coronavirus in special vectors. Such a tomato regularly produces the S1 […]
WHO recognizes Turkmenistan’s successes in the fight against hepatitis B
Turkmenistan has received a Certificate confirming its achievement of the regional goals for combating hepatitis B set out in the Action Plan for the Health Sector Response to Viral Hepatitis in the WHO European Region. The document was issued by the European Technical Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (ETAGE), convened by the Regional Office […]
Islamic Development Bank to Finance Construction of Cancer Centers in Turkmenistan
The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has proposed to finance the construction of international-level cancer centers in the Mary, Balkan, and Lebap provinces of Turkmenistan. This weas announced during a presentation of construction projects to National Leader of Turkmen people, Chairman of People’s Council Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on Monday, 9 October 2023. Commenting on the news, Arkadag […]
UNDP-Turkmenistan: Effective Cooperation in Healthcare
In an interview with the newspaper “Neutral Turkmenistan” dedicated to the Day of Healthcare Workers and the Medical Industry, the UNDP representative in Turkmenistan, Narine Sahakyan, spoke about the priority areas of cooperation between the country and UNDP in the field of healthcare. Here are the key points from the interview: Increasing the availability and […]
UNDP Supplies Insulin to Turkmenistan as part of a project to provide drugs for the treatment of NCDs
UNDP in Turkmenistan is committed to strengthening the country’s health system and supporting measures to combat non-communicable diseases. As part of the Agreement on the procurement of medicines and medical products for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in Turkmenistan, UNDP handed over to the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan a […]
Turkmen Specialists Share Expertise on Maternal Health at UNFPA Meeting in Kazakhstan
A technical meeting on sharing good practices in maternal health services among specialists of the Central Asian countries was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The event was organized by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The purpose of the meeting was to promote South-South and Triangular cooperation through sharing of good practices in further improving maternal […]
USAID Helps Turkmenistan TB Specialists Learn New Treatment Methods
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Health Organization (WHO) trained five tuberculosis (TB) specialists from Turkmenistan on the clinical management of drug-resistant (DR) TB during a study tour to Riga, Latvia. Organized by the WHO Collaborating Center in Riga, Latvia, 7-day advanced course from 16 to 23 August included intensive […]
The national leader of the Turkmen people Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov visited the medical institutions of Arkadag city
On Saturday, 12 August, the National Leader of the Turkmen people, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan visited the Multidisciplinary Hospital of the city of Arkadag and the Children’s Health and Rehabilitation Center, according to TDH report. The doctor of the Multidisciplinary Hospital said that since the opening of the hospital, three complex operations […]
Turkmen doctors performed a complex pediatric surgery using an innovative technique
For the first time in Turkmenistan, the Scientific and Clinical Center for Maternal and Child Health (Ashgabat) performed orthopedic surgery using the Pemberton method on 5-years old Atajan Shokhradov from Lebap province, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper writes. The new method was mastered by Turkmen specialists a year ago during the visit to Turkmenistan of Professor […]
WHO Country Office in Turkmenistan and the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan train SSES specialists on emergency response preparedness at the points of entry in Turkmenistan
WHO CO in Turkmenistan jointly with the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan (MoHMIT) completed series of cascade seminars on control and response in case of a public health emergency at the points of entry in Turkmenistan. The two-day trainings were held in capital city Ashgabat and all five velayats of Turkmenistan during […]
Central Asian Ministries of Health unite forces at high-level meeting in Dushanbe
High-level focal points from Ministries of Health of Central Asian countries met in Dushanbe in the Republic of Tajikistan on June 27th, to discuss how subregional collaboration and prioritized activities and investments can accelerate delivery on global, regional and national commitments for health and well-being. This meeting, organized by the World Health Organization, paved the […]
Central Asian Countries endorsed the regional Roadmap for Health and Well-being
On 11 September 2022, ministers of health care of five central Asian countries – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – gathered to endorse the Roadmap for Health and Well-being in Central Asia 2022–2025, WHO/Europe reports. This strategic document is aimed fostering cooperative responses to crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and political […]