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Turkmenistan
Structure of Health Care
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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