Last week, a Russian government delegation headed by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexey Overchuk visited Turkmenistan. The high-level meetings focused on a wide range of issues of strategic and multifaceted interstate dialogue of a nature. The main issues under discussion included traditional humanitarian partnerships, including those in the healthcare sector. The importance of this area of cooperation is illustrated by the fact that the delegation included the leading medical specialists. In her interview with a NT correspondent, the Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Tatyana Vladimirovna Semyonova emphasised they were “the high-class leaders in their areas of Russian medicine.”

During the working day of the visit, the NT correspondents had an opportunity not only to listen to a professional dialogue with Turkmen doctors, but also to talk to the guests about the present day and the prospects for partnerships between the two countries in the health sector.