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• Pingback: Patients in Uzbekistan “Have Nobody to Re...

  […] On Registan.net, Gulnoza Saidazimova paints a bleak picture of the healthcare system in Uzbekistan (part one, part two): [The system is so inadequate and outdated that] a wealthy few head to foreign countries for medical treatment, drawing on their own savings and often those of their close relatives, whereas the majority poor can…  […]

  10 February 2014, 6:56 am
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  […] [The system is so inadequate and outdated that] a wealthy few head to foreign countries for medical treatment, drawing on their own savings and often those of their close relatives, whereas the majority poor can only hope not …  […]

  10 February 2014, 7:01 am
• Pingback: Central Asia’s 2014: Lots of Alarms but only a Few Surprises · Global Voices

  […] While the palace drama kept foreign observers of Uzbek politics entertained, life for most of the country's 30 million plus citizens is still an unrelenting grind. More than any other country in this cotton-producing region, Uzbekistan uses children, teachers, doctors and other public servants as free labor in the harvest of ‘white gold'. Medical patients in the country's hospitals, meanwhile, “have nobody to rely on except God”. […]

  30 December 2014, 17:24 pm