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Turkmenistan is the country with high social security standards

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25 years of independent development of Turkmenistan noted the impressive achievements in all spheres of public life and society. It is not only material symbols of progress, but also drastic changes in the level and quality of life of the people. As noted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies experts "Vector" (Russian Federation), "Current Turkmenistan is a country with high social security and liability standards, where the highest value of society is people, and the government's efforts aimed at creating the most favorable conditions for the free development of the personality and the opportunities for heir self-realization."

Special importance for the establishment of human capital is the development of such priority areas as health and education, in modernization of which serve international standards. Considering the health of the nation as the country's wealth, the leadership of Turkmenistan pays constant attention to the legal, material-technical, scientific, provisions with cadres of the national health system. At the same time the development of other areas of public policy is supported by the course of steadily boosting the welfare and improvement of social conditions of the population to a wide initiation to the sport and a healthy lifestyle, uncompromising fight with smoking and drug trafficking.

Only in recent years, the legal framework of the national health system was filled up with the Law of Turkmenistan "On Health Protection of citizens", "On ensuring food safety and quality", "On protection of the health of citizens from exposure to tobacco smoke and the consequences of tobacco consumption", "On the drug provision". The general principle of development of Turkmen medicine, as stressed by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov is not the fragmentary update its individual components, but in systemic, a comprehensive modernization with an emphasis on long-term programs and proactive measures. An innovative model of health care development consider close coordination of diagnostic, medical institutions and medical science, planning of research, depending on the health care needs, as well as targeted training professionals able to ensure the practical application of scientific achievements.

An integrated approach is based on the State program "Health" and "State program of health care development in Turkmenistan for 2012-2016 years", and certain aspects of the multifaceted work to protect and promote the health of citizens is reflected in special programs such as "National implementation strategy 2014-2020 years of the tasks defined in the Ashgabat Declaration on prevention and Control of non-communicable diseases in Turkmenistan "," National program of healthy nutrition of the population of Turkmenistan for 2013-2017 "," The national immunization program in Turkmenistan for the period of 2013-2020 years "," The national program for the development of sanatorium service of Turkmenistan. "

An undoubted achievement of the national health system is designed for years of independence, a wide network of modern diagnostic centers and specialized clinics, modernized sanatorium facilities which provide the Turkmen citizens a wide range of high quality health care services. Modern, well-equipped medical institutions now are built or are being built in all regions of the country, including remote villages, which allows providing the general public quality medical care in the field. In accordance with the updated "National Program of President of Turkmenistan on transformation of social and living conditions of the population of villages, towns, cities, districts and district centers for the period till 2020" in rural areas is planned to construct 44 hospitals, 72 health centers.

Qualitatively new level of national health care demonstrate such innovative medical facilities as recently opened in the Turkmen capital of the Centre for the prevention of dangerous infectious diseases and the Center for Public Health and Nutrition, Morphological Centre and the International Centre of Neurology, the activity of which covers a wide range of research, treatment and prevention and experimental-production tasks. A visible manifestation of an integrated approach to the development of national health care can be considered as the creation of clusters or distinctive medical camps, where the administrative and management structure of modern scientific and clinical centers, educational institutions and residential quarters for medical personnel are concentrated in one place in the southern part of Ashgabat.

The country's achievements in the development of infrastructure and human resource capacity of the health system, in fight against dangerous infectious and non-communicable diseases, in the pursuit of international standards in the preventive, curative care are being recognized worldwide. Thus, almost all obstetric institutions of the country were conferred the status of “baby-friendly hospital ", confirmed by the experts of the World Health Organization (WHO). This international organization recommended that the use of other countries' experiences of our country in the fight against tobacco.

Today, Turkmenistan’s achievements in health care are depicted in foreign mass media. Thus, in early July, it is appeared several materials immediately in different sources about international scientific training medical center of Turkmenistan, and on the successes of our medical industry, fertility growth caused by modern medicine and effective socio-economic policy of the state.

A key element in the implementation of innovative development strategies of the country is education, and considerable public investment in this sphere, the condition its competitiveness and future prosperity. The developed system of education is an important strategic resource, providing a competitive advantage in achieving the state of progress. Therefore, in its educational policy, Turkmenistan is open to all new and useful in the world experience, that taking into account national interests and our spiritual and moral principles can be used to address current and strategic tasks of the country. It states the experience of attracting to the basic computer and language literacy in pre-school, introduction of up-to-date interactive methodology of teaching in the Turkmen school, participation in the international educational programmes and many others.

In accordance with current trends it is developing a system of vocational education, strengthening its ties with science and industry. Every year in Turkmen universities, there are new specialty, demanded by a strategy of innovation and industrial development of the country, boosting international cooperation.

To support innovative development of education is a leading and with the emphasis to the real sector, in addition to the relationship of mutually beneficial partnership between almost all institutions of higher education of Turkmenistan and a number of leading scientific and educational institutions of different states, it is developed contacts with the world-renowned sectoral companies and consortiums. It has fruitful experience to attract the educational process in the Turkmen higher educational institutions of the American company «General Electric» experts and representatives of the Malaysian University of Technology «Petronas». Great support in studying foreign languages in schools and universities of Turkmenistan has provided their native speakers- foreign experts, who take part in the implementation of reforms in the education sector, promoting in-depth study not only English, German and Russian, but also Chinese and Japanese languages. Overall the reforming process of the national spheres of education is implemented taking into account innovation, the historical-spiritual and socio-cultural components.

Jubilee landmarks in the development of Turkmenistan are not only an occasion to look back at the road traveled, but also on the basis of the achievements to design plans for the future. How will be the future depends largely on the country's human capital and also how physically healthy and spiritually rich, educated and committed will be each Turkmen citizen, especially the younger generation. Turkmen people under the guidance of the national leader is able to realize the daring dreams, as well as forecasts of the abovementioned independent experts, who believe that "having a serious economic potential, developed industrial production, significant resource base, rich experience in implementing large-scale, high-tech infrastructure projects, an ever-growing intellectual potential, Turkmenistan can actually be one of the most economically and socially developed countries of Central Asia."