This project aims to improve the water supply, sanitation system, physical infrastructure, and equipment in the Surgery and Resuscitation units of the Devashtich District Central Hospital, mainly by replacing irreparable or outdated items (such as broken walls and pipes), and upgrading or providing the most important medical devices. By doing so, we hope to vastly improve the quality of care given at the hospital, thus saving many more lives in the rural district of Devashtich.
The Devashtich District Central Hospital was constructed in the 1970s, and no quality repair has been provided since then. Tajikistan's public budget mainly covers healthcare worker wages, leaving little to cover maintenance and upgrades. Due to this lack of investment, rural medical facilities provide much lower quality care in comparison to their urban counterparts. Due to the absence of necessary equipment and supplies, many elect to travel more than an hour to the closest urban hospital.
This project aims to improve the water supply, sanitation system, physical infrastructure, and equipment in the Surgery and Resuscitation units of the Devashtich District Central Hospital, mainly by replacing irreparable or outdated items (such as broken walls and pipes), and upgrading or providing the most important medical devices. By doing so, we hope to vastly improve the quality of care given at the hospital, thus saving many more lives in the rural district of Devashtich.
By upgrading the facilities at the hospital, more than 120,000 residents from the district and neighboring ones will have access to timely and life-saving medical care. Doing so will prevent nosocomial transmission and preventable deaths, it will narrow the gap in quality of life between the rural and urban communities of northern Tajikistan.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
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