In this country, special attention is being paid to strengthening people’s health, bringing up a physically healthy and morally developed generation with high intellectual potential and making sure that a healthy lifestyle takes hold.

In this country, special attention is being paid to strengthening people’s health, bringing up a physically healthy and morally developed generation with high intellectual potential and making sure that a healthy lifestyle takes hold.

Itinerant brigades of medico-social help of the Soghlom Avlod Uchun (for a healthy generation) international charity foundation are carrying out extended medical check-ups of people of neighbourhoods and villages, specifically minors, women of fertile age, people of advanced age and people with disabilities. The necessary knowledge about the significance of a healthy lifestyle is given to them. Round-table conversations held regularly on such topics as “AIDS”, “drug addiction”, “a healthy lifestyle”, “reproductive health” and “the negative consequences of early marriage” help to raise the medical culture of the population.

Studies were conducted of the social conditions, the psychological atmosphere and the condition of children in nearly 12 thousand families living in 753 villages and 1 thousand 745 neighbourhoods in the Republic of Qoraqalpoghiston, the regions and the city of Tashkent. Medical exams of about 136 thousand citizens were conducted.

A scheduled medical exam was arranged in the “Shofayzi” neighbourhood in Shayhontohur district of the capital city together with doctors of the district central multi-functional polyclinic. During this medical exam, special attention was given to the health of older people, war veterans, labour veterans, women and children.

Informational explanatory work has been conducted among students of educational establishments on the formation of a healthy lifestyle and reproductive health.