DUSHANBE, March 11, 2016, Asia-Plus --  On the proposal of President Emomali Rahmon a new medical center in Dushanbe that firstly was named “Poytakht-90” was renamed “Istiqlol.”    

We will recall that the president inaugurated the medical center “Poytakht-90” on March 4. 

A new city hospital with a total of 650 beds and a polyclinic that can handle 800 visitors per shift is located in Dushanbe’s Firdavsi district between the Republican Diagnostic Center and the Sultoni Kabir Market.

We will recall that President Emomali Rahmon laid the cornerstone of this medical center on September 6, 2011 and it was finished in early May last year.

Settled upon a 10-ha area, the center is provided with the state-of-the-art medical equipment.  A total cost of this project is more than 706 million somoni.  

According to the president’s official website, more than 3,000 medical workers will work for the center at monthly wages ranging from 1,200 to 3,500 somoni.

Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, President Rahmon proposed to rename the new medical center “Istiqlol” (Independence).