Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “Kyrgyzstan’s health system struggles after longstanding turmoil” – below is their description.
The central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan has suffered 30 years of political instability since independence following the breakup of the Soviet Union.
One of the areas this is felt most is in the health sector.
Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford visited a rehabilitation centre in Aksu which is struggling to treat children with a neurological condition that doctors say would be preventable if basic healthcare was available to pregnant mums.
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Al Jazeera English YouTube Channel
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In This Story: Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, it was a one-party state (until 1990) governed by the Communist Party, with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian SFSR.
The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917 when the Bolsheviks, headed by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Provisional Government that had earlier replaced the monarchy of the Russian Empire.
On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the remaining twelve constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independent post-Soviet states. The Russian Federation (formerly the Russian SFSR) assumed the Soviet Union’s rights and obligations and is recognized as its continued legal personality.
