Contribution of advisers of the ministry of health of the Mongolian people’s republic to the development of healthcare (1920s – 1940s)

Abstract

Based on archival documents, the article traces the history of creating the institute of advisors of the Ministry of Health of the Mongolian People’s Republic. The activity of Soviet doctors I.L. Baevsky, Y.L. Grossman, and M.A. Ibragimov is analyzed. The analysis allows judging about the declared and hidden goals of the Soviet government, that understood what specialists could provide the development of the Mongolian healthcare according to the Soviet model in the conditions of political and social turbulence. The personal files and documents of the advisors preserved in the archives showed their preparedness for possible challenges and problems in building a new health care system for Mongolia. The problems that the advisors of the Ministry of Health of Mongolia encountered in the course of their work are highlighted.

Transborder molecular analysis of drug‐resistant tuberculosis in Mongolia and Eastern Siberia, Russia

“…Although a detailed discussion of this topic is beyond the scope of this study, in brief, the two public health‐related factors could at least partly explain a very high MDR rate in Russia and much lower MDR rate in Mongolia: (i) the limited access to drugs and low DST coverage in Mongolia (Dobler et al., 2015; Ebright et al., 2003; Gol'man, 2011; Morishita et al., 2020; Toyota, 1998) and (ii) an inadequate treatment and non‐compliance in Russia (Yablonskii et al., 2015). The TB diagnostics and control algorithm in Mongolia were in line with the Soviet system of 1920–1990 (Bashkuev, 2020). This was followed by the decreased bilateral relations between the two neighbouring countries and coincided with the first reports of the emergence of drug‐resistant TB in Russia in the early 1990s (Namzhilova, 2018).…”