On November 10, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic, Banking and International Financial Organizations Serdar Berdimuhamedov opened several new facilities in the Balkan velayat, of which he is the curator.

In the city of Turkmenbashi, an official opened the building of an infectious diseases hospital. According to the state information agency TDH , the Director of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Dr. Hans Kluge , joined the opening ceremony via video link , who congratulated the audience on this event and " noted the special importance of this clinic in the fight against infectious diseases ."

On October 8, Hans Kluge arrived in Ashgabat and held talks with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov , following which the parties agreed to conduct "in the near future" a WHO technical mission in Turkmenistan to study the genome of the coronavirus. A year earlier, the head of state allowed WHO to conduct independent tests for COVID-19 in the country, but the mission was never able to get to Turkmenistan.

Meanwhile, on November 9, WHO's senior emergency officer, Catherine Smallwood, said that "the COVID-19 pandemic has been spreading around the world for almost two years now, so from a scientific point of view, it can hardly be imagined that there is no virus in Turkmenistan."

The structure of the clinic includes a laboratory, operating room, intensive care, maternity, physiotherapy departments, departments of viral hepatitis, infectious diseases of the upper respiratory tract, intestinal infections, especially dangerous infectious diseases transmitted by airborne droplets , as well as a department for the treatment of chronic infectious diseases.

Then the president's son opened a hospital for 50 inpatient and 30 outpatient beds in the Makhtumkuli etrap.

Source: Chronicles of Turkmenistan