To bring domestic science to a qualitatively new, world level, to increase the efficiency of research and technological developments and to focus them on addressing the pressing issues of the life of the state and society are the main tasks set by the President before Turkmen scientists and the entire society. The priority areas of the development of Turkmen science include the protection of health of the Turkmen people that the leader of the nation views as a factor of national security and a strategic goal of the national health sector.

Today, employees of the research centres, affiliated with the Ministry of Health and the Medical Industry and the Academy of Sciences, and the Research Centre at Myrat Garriyev State Medical University are developing this area of science.