HEALTH MINISTER AT "HOURS OF GREAT CONSTRUCTION" MEETING

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The 2013 was the peak of the country’s grow of population, noted the Minister of Health N.Udval Monday at this weekly meeting. The rates of mortalities of mother and infant were the lowest since 2000, she added. The Health Ministry announced 2014 as the year of supporting mothers and infants health in order to focus on the health issues of pregnant women and newly born babies. The rate of infant mortality declined 29% in the first months of 2014 against the previous year, and the mortality of children under five years also decreased by 19%, she said. Her Ministry intends to run a nationwide examination in all health organizations from April, "we want to increase adequacy and quality of the health assistance and services for mothers and infants". Remote diagnosis equipment has been given to localities' hospitals, this will decrease a flow of countryside people to the capital city, the Minister hoped. Other medical facilities have been sent to the countryside such as tomography apparatus, digital X-Ray, laboratory and endoscope diagnosis, and medical diagnostic centers have been erected as well. Thirty types of illnesses and diseases can not be diagnosed or cured here so far, but the Health Ministry intends to improve this situation, she promised, for example, foreign doctors will be invited, and all people with these illnesses will be registered nationwide, she said.