Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbekistan and UNICEF signed a road map for 2022-2025, which includes joint activities to develop the country’s healthcare system for a total of US$102.5 million.

The document was signed today by the Minister of Health Behzod Musayev and the head of UNICEF in Uzbekistan Munir Mammadzade.

This document included additional measures to develop the healthcare sector in our country for a total of US$102.5 million. It consists of four areas.

The first direction is aimed at urgent tasks for further improvement of perinatal services in the country.

Among them are improving the level of knowledge and skills of health workers specializing in the protection of motherhood and childhood, equipping medical institutions with modern medical equipment, saving the lives of underweight babies and other important activities.

The second direction includes vaccinating children according to the national vaccination schedule, equipping existing sanitary facilities with modern equipment, thus improving immunization processes in our country.

In addition, major projects will be implemented aimed at improving the water supply of a number of secondary schools in the Republic of Karakalpakstan, which is important for their sanitary and hygienic condition and the health of students. It also means addressing a number of issues such as preventing iodine deficiency and anemia in children.

The third area consists of measures aimed at improving the nutrition of mothers and children. Among them are such important tasks as providing 6-23-month-old children and women under 35 with iron and folic acid, developing nutrition standards in secondary schools.

The last direction involves improving the quality of medical services for adolescents. Within its framework, projects such as the development of a national strategy to improve the health of schoolchildren, the preparation of training programs for health workers providing services to adolescents of this age, and the creation of a platform to promote a healthy lifestyle among young people will be implemented.

In general, the implementation of the bilateral "Roadmap" will serve to strengthen the health of motherhood and childhood in our country, increase the level of knowledge and qualifications of medical workers working in this direction.