US to capitalize on Azeri healthcare experience

The United States intends to capitalize on Azerbaijan’s experience in the prevention of child deaths, a US assemblywoman has said.

“Although cutting-edge technologies are used in the US healthcare sector, it is an undeniable fact that the United States takes the 40th place in the world for medical services,” Senator Sheila Kuehl of California said in a meeting with Azerbaijani Minister of Health Ogtay Shiraliyev on Tuesday.

Kuehl said that the United States was one of the western countries where the rate of child deaths was high. Every fifth person in California is deprived of medical services, she said.

Minister Shiraliyev spoke of the novelties introduced in Azerbaijan’s health sector and the health reforms conducted in the country over the past few years.*