Mongolia

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.