Turkmenistan - health worries

While other post-Soviet states saw their health infrastructure collapse Turkmenistan seems to have the unlucky distinction of seeing it's health-care system deliberately destroyed.

President Niyazov has been blamed by many outside observers for the current poor state of care facilities. Actions like replacing 15,000 health-care workers with army recruits in 2004 and threatening to close all Hospitals outside the capital, Ashgabat, in 2005 seem to support their view, more from EurasiaNet...