DUSHANBE, December 30, 2008, Asia-Plus  -- A private diagnostic center, Kanzi Shifo, has been launched in the northern city of Chkalovsk.

Local entrepreneur Azam Yusufov, who has founded the center, said in an interview with Asia-Plus that he had spent 1 million somoni for construction of the center and further 260,000 somoni for purchase of medical equipment.

“The center is capable to receive up to 100 patients per day,” Yusufov said.