Director General of the World Health Organization of the Kyrgyz Republic Tedros Ghebreyesus highly appreciated the efforts of the leadership of Kyrgyzstan to rationalize the infrastructure of the national healthcare system in order to increase the priority of primary care.
The press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic said that within the framework of the working visit of Minister Jeenbek Kulubaev to Geneva (Switzerland), a meeting was held with WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus.
During the meeting, the parties discussed important aspects of cooperation between Kyrgyzstan and the WHO aimed at developing and strengthening the healthcare system, as well as combating the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences, the report said.
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic proposed to focus on solving priority tasks for Kyrgyzstan in the field of healthcare, in particular, on modernizing primary health care, forming a healthcare information system capable of providing unified and centralized data processing, further increasing resilience to health emergencies, as well as strengthening the prevention of non-communicable diseases.
In turn, the WHO Director General highly appreciated the efforts of the Kyrgyz leadership to rationalize the infrastructure of the national healthcare system in order to increase the priority of primary care, and also assured that WHO would continue to assist the country in priority areas of healthcare development.
At the end of the meeting, the parties expressed their mutual readiness to continue the interaction of Kyrgyzstan with WHO throughout the entire range of cooperation. At the same time, Kulubaev invited Ghebreyesus to visit Kyrgyzstan at any convenient time.