The Address of the Head of the state to the Oliy Majlis continues.

A reserve of 3 trillion soums has been formed in the state budget for 2021 to combat the coronavirus pandemic, Shavkat Mirziyoyev said. – The population will be vaccinated against coronavirus infection at the expense of these funds. $200 million will be allocated to improve the quality of work, the material and technical base of the sanitary-epidemiological service, and create modern laboratories.

Starting next year, children under 15 and pregnant women will receive 7 types of vitamins and medicines for parasitic diseases free of charge. These measures will cover 11 million people in 2021 and 17 million in 2022. It is planned to allocate 100 billion soums for these purposes. We hope to reduce the incidence of anemia by 25 percent by providing women and children with free iodine, iron, folic acid, vitamins, and antiparasitic drugs.

Communication-based telemedicine technologies will be established between the republican specialized centers and their local branches, and opportunities for diagnostics and treatment in the regions will be increased. Measures will be envisaged to expand the range of remote services provided by medical institutions and to introduce electronic office work in polyclinics and hospitals.

The activities of medical teams, consisting of a family doctor and 5 assistants from among the nursing staff, will be organized instead of general practitioners in primary care institutions. It is planned to create special departments for the diagnosis and treatment of endocrine diseases in regional hospitals. For this, 150 billion soums will be allocated from the budget in 2021.

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