Turkmenistan

July 2005 | Risk Summary

Healthcare provision has been systematically dismantled, with state funding reduced and user fees introduced, rendering services inaccessible to the majority of the population, according to a recent survey by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Officials say that local hospitals have been closed and medical training curtailed due to limited resources. While public money is spent instead on projects glorifying the regime, the health crisis will

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