Uzbekistan recognized as a malaria-free country
07/04/2019 17:36
Uzbekistan recognized as a malaria-free country
07/04/2019 17:36
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Head of the World Health Organization Representative Office in Uzbekistan Lian Kuppens presented the WHO certificate to the Minister of Health, Alisher Shadmanov, confirming the status of the state that eliminated malaria. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan.
During the event, Mrs. L. Kuppens acknowledged that Uzbekistan had made a huge step in making the territory free of malaria, an impressive historical achievement.
To achieve this result, doctors, specialists in the system of sanitation and epidemiology in the republic carried out extensive work to combat this disease. Thanks to targeted interventions in recent years, local cases of malaria have not been recorded.
Naturally, each country that has received an international certificate on elimination of malaria, undertakes to continue the full range of activities to preserve the achieved results. In our republic, too, the Ministry of Health, together with other ministries and departments, will work hard in accordance with the National Strategy for the Prevention of Malaria Recovery in the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2017–2021, approved in 2017.
In 2017, the World Health Organization at the international level recognized that Uzbekistan eliminated measles and rubella. And now the country is recognized as a free territory from local cases of malaria.
The health of the population is the main wealth of the country, therefore the state pays great attention to the development of the health care system and the improvement of the quality of medical services provided to people. To this end, Uzbekistan is actively conducting epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases to prevent them from entering the republic.
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