Ulaanbaatar
Citizens start being involved in preventive checkups
Society
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. Nationwide preventive checkups
and early detection campaign started from yesterday, May 1.
During the opening ceremony, Minister of Health S.Enkhbold
emphasized, “This one-year nationwide campaign has three key goals. Contribution
to the post-COVID-19 rehabilitation treatment is a priority. Secondly, we aim
to make it a habit for every citizen to have regular preventive and
early-detection checkups, and thirdly to reduce the incidence of five most
common diseases in Mongolia.”
Medical checkups are being conducted in urban hospitals and
mobile health clinics in remote areas.
In Mongolia, the leading causes of morbidity are
gastrointestinal diseases, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and urogenital
diseases, injuries, and poisoning. The leading causes of death are cardiovascular
diseases, cancer, injuries, poisoning, gastrointestinal disorders and
respiratory diseases.
