Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan plans to purchase drugs for cancer patients

AKIPRESS.COM - The Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan on December 17 announced a tender for purchase of antitumor drugs for 12,750,608 som, the state procurement website reported.
The deadline for application of documents is December 19.
27,000 people diagnosed with cancer diseases live in Kyrgyzstan, Minister of Health Kosmosbek Cholponbayev says.
According to him, 18,000 of them are women and about 2,000 are children.
The Minister said the drugs for cancer patients were purchased in the country for the first time in 2019.
These drugs are very expensive and there is a shortage of funds for them, according to him.