EACH PROVINCE TO HAVE DIAGNOSIS CENTER

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ On Wednesday, the Prime Minister N.Altankhuyag held an online meeting in the Government House's Local Authority Hall with authorities of hospitals and regional diagnosis centers of aimags. The cabinet for reforms intends to turn every aimag's center into a city and to establish in them diagnosis-treatment centers, "in this case local inhabitants will not spend big money for medical serviced in the capital city," the Premier said. He presented an initial plan of local diagnosis center co-designed by the Ministry of Health, and said each center, costing some six billion togrog, will be equipped with 14 kinds of diagnosis facilities. During the online meeting, representatives of 17 aimags put their proposals and backed the plan. They said some aimags want to have additional facilities "because local features must be considered." The centers' buildings must be separate from united hospitals, they added. After this the Premier ordered heads of the regional united hospitals to quickly send to the Health Ministry requests about specific facilities and promised to provide them with necessary diagnosis facilities by the next year. He added that they should work out a survey on staffers to work in the centers. B.Khuder