Computed tomography (CT) scanners installed in public healthcare organizations have been switched to round-the-clock operation. Press center of the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan reported.
In addition, the heads of healthcare organizations were instructed to work out the issue of setting the price for diagnostic services not higher than 1,500 soms.
Computed tomography scanners operate in five Regional Combined Hospitals in Naryn, Issyk-Kul, Jalal-Abad, Osh and Talas regions. This year, delivery of two nuclear magnetic resonance tomography scanners and two angiographs is expected within the framework of «Emergency Response to COVID-19» and «Enhancing Resilience to Natural Disaster Risks in Kyrgyzstan ERIK-CERC» projects of the World Bank, two CT scanners — through the Asian Development Bank and six CT scanners — through a public-private partnership project.
«The purchased equipment will allow the local healthcare system to provide modern diagnostic services, increase the potential of local healthcare systems, and also increase the availability of technological diagnostics in the regions of the country. Study of the issue of creating an information system for a centralized description of medical images has also begun,» the ministry said.
