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Turkmenistan
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Health and welfare institutions are administered by the ministries of
health, culture, education, and social welfare. Various coordination
committees also operate under the aegis of presidential advisers. Between
1989 and 1992, health care as a share of the state budget declined from
11.2 to 6.9 percent, leaving inadequate local budgets to bear the brunt of
expenditures. The comparison of health care statistics before and after
1991 is somewhat misleading, however, because the statistics do not
account for changes in health budgeting at the end of the communist era.
In 1989 the republic had about 13,000 doctors and 298 hospitals,
totaling more than 40,000 beds (111 per 10,000 persons). Some industrial
enterprises had separate clinics for their workers. The number of doctors
reached 13,800 or (36.2 per 10,000 persons) in 1991; at that time, medical
personnel numbered 40,600, or 106.9 per 10,000. Until the early 1990s, all
health personnel were government employees.
Data as of March 1996
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