
A meeting between representatives of the governments of Uzbekistan and Japan was held in Tashkent, followed by a ceremony for signing bilateral agreements, the Press Service of the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan reports.
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will invest approximately $150 million in the “Establishment of the Republican Specialized Scientific and Practical Medical Center for Neurology and Stroke” project, initiated by the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan.
The meeting was attended by J.Khodjayev, Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan, L.Kudratov, Minister of Investments, Industry, and Trade, F.Toshpulatov, Deputy Minister of Health, Akihiko Tanaka, JICA President, Bito Yoshibumi, Head of the JICA Office in Uzbekistan, and Takashi Hatori, Ambassador of Japan to Uzbekistan.
As noted, the project includes constructing a 250-bed medical center in Tashkent. More than 600 specialists will work in the facility to provide continuous and systematic medical care for patients with neurological diseases and stroke survivors.
The center will also feature a simulation training facility with the latest medical technology to train narrow-profile specialists.

During the first five years of operation, the institution plans to invite five experienced healthcare managers from Japan and send 150 local medical professionals to Japan for advanced training.
During negotiations between Minister of Health A. Khudoyorov and JICA President A. Tanaka, an agreement was reached to allocate an additional $500 million for the improvement of emergency medical services, the training of specialists, the development of national clinical protocols, the provision of mammography equipment to district and city medical associations, and the strengthening of the material and technical resources of the Republican Specialized Scientific and Practical Medical Center of Microsurgery of the Eye, as well as neurosurgery and endocrinology centers, including their branches. The funding will also support the training of medical professionals.
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