Kyrgyz Family Medicine Celebrates 10th Anniversary
In October 2007, Kyrgyzstan’s medical professionals marked the 10-year anniversary of the nationwide introduction of the family medicine practice. The concept was brought to Kyrgyzstan in 1994 by USAID’s ZdravPlus project, with the establishment of the country’s first family medicine practices in the Issyk Kul Oblast and worked with the Ministry of Health to prepare for their country-wide replication. In 1997, the Government of Kyrgyzstan adopted the model nationally, and now family medicine services are provided by more than 700 centers across all seven regions of the country. USAID also helped open family medicine training centers in each region to provide continuous and easily accessible education for family medicine practitioners. Over the past decade, this network of training centers, together with ZdravPlus, has retrained almost all of the country’s 3,000 primary care doctors and 4,500 primary care nurses in family medicine.
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Hundreds of family medicine specialists have gathered to a USAID-supported conference to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their profession in Kyrgyzstan
Photo Credit: ZdravPlus |
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