Uzbekistan to expand free medicine and medical exams by 2027
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President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced a plan to expand the state-guaranteed healthcare package in Uzbekistan starting in 2027.
The government intends to increase the number of free medicines from 69 to 73 and raise the number of covered medical examinations to 36. The president shared these measures during a meeting with healthcare and pharmaceutical workers in Tashkent.
The government plans to launch a new screening program for stomach, colorectal, prostate, and lung cancers in the Samarkand region before expanding it to all regions of Uzbekistan in 2028. To support this, the government plans to spend 700 billion soums every year. Mirziyoyev also noted that a program to detect heart attacks and strokes early has already reduced mortality by 15 percent during its first five months in several regions.
The government plans to spend 280 billion soums in 2027 to expand this emergency response program to every city and district in the country. The president also spoke about a new primary healthcare model that has already been tested in 28 districts. This model assigned seven million residents to family doctors and established standardized pathways for patient treatment. The government plans to introduce this model in another 100 districts starting in 2027.
Mirziyoyev noted that the country has tripled its healthcare services over the last decade by adding 58,000 hospital beds and commissioning facilities to serve 10 million people.
