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Country profiles of <strong>health</strong> system responses to the <strong>crisis</strong> | Tajikistan<br />

501<br />

Changes to <strong>health</strong> service planning, purchasing <strong>and</strong> delivery<br />

Prices of medical goods<br />

• Reduction of VAT on pharmaceuticals from 18% to 5% has been<br />

discussed.<br />

Salaries <strong>and</strong> motivation of <strong>health</strong> sector workers<br />

• Increases in <strong>health</strong> sector worker salaries occurred from 2007 onwards: 30–<br />

40% increase in 2012.<br />

Payment to providers<br />

• Approval of a government decree to introduce user fees for some consultative<br />

<strong>and</strong> diagnostic services with exemptions from payment for cetain categories of<br />

citizen (2008).<br />

Overhead costs: restructuring the Ministry of Health <strong>and</strong> purchasing agencies<br />

• Reduction of the number of staff in the Ministry of Health by 10%<br />

(2012).<br />

Provider infrastructure <strong>and</strong> capital investment<br />

• No responses reported.<br />

Priority setting or protocols to change access to treatments, coordination<br />

of care <strong>and</strong> patterns of use<br />

• No responses reported.<br />

Waiting times<br />

• No response reported<br />

Health promotion <strong>and</strong> prevention<br />

• A new Strategy for the Prevention <strong>and</strong> Control of Non-infectious Diseases<br />

<strong>and</strong> Trauma in the Republic of Tajikistan for 2013–2020 was approved by<br />

Government Decree 676, dated 3 December 2012.

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