11:48, 09 февраля 2022, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Baktygul OSMONALIEVA
The President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov visited the former Republican Diagnostic Center, reorganized by the Ministry of Health into a multidisciplinary Children’s Clinical Hospital. Press service of the President reported.
He examined the building and talked with the staff, listened to opinions on the situation in the institution and answered questions. Doctors asked to stop the process of reorganization, as a result of which the institution is actually transformed into a branch of one of the capital’s children’s hospitals, and also told about the existing problems such as utility bills arrears, outdated equipment, and others.
Sadyr Japarov told the medical workers that the purpose of his visit was to get acquainted with the activities of the Diagnostic Center and assist in its development.
Taking into account the opinion of the staff, the head of state instructed his executive office to keep the institution as a diagnostic center and work out the issue of assigning it the status of a national one.
It was announced on November 15, 2021 that the Republican Diagnostic Center was to be liquidated. It was the initiative of the head of the Ministry of Health Alymkadyr Beishenaliev. Later, the press center of the ministry reported that the reorganization of the center into a children’s multidisciplinary hospital for 240 beds had begun.