Assessment and optimization plan for enhancing public medical laboratory services in the Kyrgyz Republic.

ABSTRACT: Middle-income and especially low-income countries continuously seek ways to efficiently utilize their public funds to provide access to quality healthcare for their population. The government of the Kyrgyz Republic is embarking on a Strengthening Regional Health Security Project for the optimization and centralization of medical laboratories, which will be implemented as a pilot in two major cities and two regions of the country to improve essential laboratory testing for disease surveillance and diagnostics. Representative state-funded laboratories (6 bacteriological public health laboratories and 11 clinical diagnostic laboratories) were assessed using the World Health Organization's Laboratory Assessment Tool that covered the provision of services, condition of facilities, equipment, fi

SUBMITTER: Sabyrbekova T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12233281 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature