NEWS
INSULIN SHIPPED TO TURKMENISTAN
Within the framework of a joint project of the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan and the United Nations Development Program to assist in the control of noncommunicable diseases, the first batch of insulin, a vital drug for the treatment of diabetes mellitus, has been delivered to the country.
The first batch included fast-acting insulins - «Actrapid» and «Mikstard», and in the near future UNDP will supply other types of insulins, syringe pens, as well as needles from European manufacturers. The total cost of insulins is over US $ 1.8 million.
«UNDP provides assistance in the procurement of medical products in more than 36 countries. Since 2010, UNDP has been purchasing medical products for the National Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Program in Turkmenistan under a tuberculosis grant from the Global Fund. Since 2016, at the request of the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan, we have been assisting in the procurement of medicines for other infectious diseases», said Rovshen Nurmukhamedov, Head of the UNDP Program Department in Turkmenistan.
The project of the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan and the United Nations Development Program with a budget of US $ 32.8 million is fully funded by the Government of Turkmenistan and provides for the supply of vital drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular, oncological, endocrine, neurological and chronic respiratory diseases.
UNDP procurement of drugs is carried out centrally at the headquarters level in Copenhagen, Denmark through a transparent open international tender.
It should be noted that next year would mark the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin by University of Toronto scientists Frederick Bunting and John McLeod, for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In honor of this, the World Health Organization) launched a Global Diabetes Pact initiative to accelerate action to prevent and treat people with diabetes.
Ayjakhan Ataballyeva