MAIN TASKS AND DIRECTIONS OF ACTIVITY OF MINISTRY OF HEALTH DETERMINED

In order to create a unified system of health management that meet the modern requirements of organizational structure and further improve the quality of medical care provided to the population of the Republic, the head of state adopted a Resolution "On measures on further improvement of activity of bodies of health care".

The document defines the main tasks and directions of activity of the Ministry of health of the Republic of Uzbekistan and its territorial bodies, including:

— implementation of a unified state policy in the field of health protection, aimed at increasing the role and responsibility of heads of bodies and organizations of the Ministry to ensure full and timely provision of public healthcare services;

— priority of ensuring public health, motivating the population to lead a healthy lifestyle, improving the culture and health literacy of the population, primarily in fostering a sense of responsibility for their own health and the health of others;

— creation of favorable conditions for the birth and upbringing of healthy generation, to improve the nation’s gene pool, increasing the family medical culture, quality and duration of life, the development of the main directions of state policy in the field of health protection and sanitary-epidemiological welfare of population;

— expansion of medical care services to rural areas;

— improving the accessibility and responsiveness provided to the population of primary, emergency, acute and specialized medical care;

— implementation of measures on state regulation of drug circulation, the implementation of standardization and certification of medicines, medical devices and medical equipment, and equipment permitted for use on the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

— improvement of targeted social protection of lonely elderly, pensioners, the disabled, improving the level and quality of health and social care through the organization of their treatment;

— development of a strategy and forecasting of development of medical science through a combination of domestic experience and global best achievements, improving the efficiency of scientific medical research, introduction of achievements of science, engineering and advanced experience into medical practice, development of the system of higher and secondary medical education;

— introduction of modern and proven in international practice methods of managing the health system, providing a single organizational-methodical management and control of quality of medical services in the health system.

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