DUSHANBE, February 16, 2010, Asia-Plus - On Monday February 15, medical workers across the country bought shares in open joint-stock company (OJSC) NBO Roghun for 454,000 somoni, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

“In Dushanbe alone, more than 2,000 workers came to the head office Amonatbonk (Tajikistan’s savings bank) yesterday to buy shares in Roghun,” the source at a MoH said “They bought shares for a total of 248,900 somoni.”

In the meantime, Tajik medical workers have bought shares in Roghun for a total of some 38.4 million somoni by February 16, the source added. 

We will recall that to raise funds to complete construction of the Roghun HPP the government started to sell shares in Roghun to people on January 6 this year.  Tajikistan has issued 6 billion somoni (US$1.37 billion) worth of Roghun shares.