Introduction
A new phase of support for cardiovascular diseases, which are a priority public health issue in Mongolia, has continued since 2022 with the same partners: the Shastin Hospital/National Cardiovascular Centre (NCC) and Luxembourg’s National Institute for Interventional Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology (INCCI).
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The implementation of the new programme will, like previous phases, again focus on supporting the ten-year State Policy on Health (2017-2026).
In 2023, one year after implementation of this project started, 750,000 people have benefited from cardiovascular risk prevention education, and the strengthening of the capacities of cardiac surgeons continues to yield concrete results: thus, the number of open-heart surgical procedures performed during the year in the country reached a total of 378, of which 91.2% were performed by surgeons from Mongolia. Digitalisation (telemedicine) is an essential component of the project in a country where 30% of the population is nomadic and where access to health services in rural areas is very unequal compared to access in urban areas.