DUSHANBE, 11.11.2020 (NIAT Khovar) – Yesterday, a meeting of the Coordination Council under the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population was held at the Republican Center for Healthy Lifestyle, during which the National Program for Healthy Lifestyle for 2011-2020 was summed up.

The meeting was attended by the head of the ministry’s Department of Sanitary and Epidemiological Security, Emergency Situations and Emergency Medical Services Navruz Jafarov, Director of the Republican Center for Healthy Lifestyle Parvina Mukhtorova, directors of healthy lifestyle centers in cities and districts, as well as representatives of several ministries and agencies.

Mukhtorova noted that the purpose of the program is to form a new attitude of citizens through the principles of a healthy lifestyle, including raising the level of medical education of the population, changing attitudes to health, understanding the importance of a healthy lifestyle, implementation of effective regional lifestyle programs on healthy lifestyle, improvement of the system of training, retraining and advanced training of specialists in various fields on the formation of a healthy lifestyle, improvement of the structure and establishment of the material and technical base of centers for the formation of a healthy lifestyle and increase their efficiency.

In order to implement this program and coordinate the activities of ministries and agencies, a coordination council and a monitoring group have been established under the Ministry of Health, which includes representatives of relevant ministries and agencies, she said.

It was noted that over the past 10 years, 11,557 television programs, 8,798 radio programs on the prevention of diseases have been developed and broadcasted, as well as 16,782 medical articles have been published in national, regional, city and district newspapers and magazines.