AGP Executive Report
Last update: 5 hours agoChildren’s Healthcare Partnerships: The Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Charity Fund’s medical vice-president, Oguljahan Atabayeva, met China’s ambassador Ji Shumin, Palestine’s ambassador Rana Abu Hijleh, and UNDP’s Turkmenistan representative Narine Sahakyan to expand cooperation focused on children’s healthcare and social support, including follow-ups to a memorandum with the Soong Ching Ling Foundation and continued work with UNICEF. Maternal & Child Health Policy: Turkmenistan has approved a five-year national program aimed at protecting maternal and child health, keeping child-focused care on the policy agenda. Passport & Health Admin Friction: Some Turkmen citizens applying for biometric passports report fingerprint scanner failures and are pushed to obtain medical certificates from dermatology/venereology clinics to document “impossibility” of fingerprinting—sometimes with disputed acceptance rules. Regional Health Context: Turkmenistan ranked 75th in the KidsRights Index 2026, with healthcare scoring relatively strong compared with weaker results in protection and other child-welfare areas.
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