DUSHANBE, May 4, 2015, Asia-Plus -- On Saturday May 2, Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev held a meeting on the occasion of the completion of construction of new medical center in the city.

According to the mayor’s office press center, issues related to providing the center with medical equipment were a major topic of the meeting.   

The mayor reportedly ordered to purchase the equipment for the center directly from producers avoiding any producers.

The center is located in Dushanbe’s Firdavsi district between the Republican Diagnostic Center and the Sultoni Kabir Market and more than 600 medical workers are expected to work with this medical center.

We will recall that President Emomali Rahmon laid the cornerstone of a new city hospital with a total of 650 beds and a polyclinic that can handle 800 visitors per shift in Dushanbe on September 6, 2011.