Mobile clinic arrives in Kyrgyzstan

AKIPRESS.COM - The mobile clinic of 5 medical support vehicles arrived in Kyrgyzstan on May 5, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported.
These medical support vehicles were manufactured in Turkey and are aimed to improve quality of and access to health care services in rural and remote parts of the country.
The Ministry of Health said earlier the mobile clinic will be stationed in Naryn region.
The mobile clinic has diagnostic unit with modern medical equipment, such as computer tomograph, ultrasound machines, mammograph, X-ray machine, gastroscope, colonoscope, ophthalmoscope, rhinoscope, echocardiograph, laboratory equipment for biochemical and other tests, as well as an operating room for operations.
Expenditures related to operation of the mobile clinic, salaries, accommodation, meals of medical workers, medicines and consumables will be financed by the Islamic Development Bank for 5 years.
The grant agreement on purchase of 5 mobile clinics was signed in 2014 during visit of the President of Kyrgyzstan to Mecca. The tender was held by the Islamic Development and Bank and was won by Normeca.