Ensuring continuity of cancer care while responding to the COVID-19 pandemic Experiences from Kyrgyzstan (2020) (produced by WHO/Europe)

The health system  in Kyrgyzstan is adapting to ensure continuity of care for people with cancer while maintaining measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Despite restrictions on driving private automobiles and quarantines for health-care personnel who have been in contact with people with COVID-19 (or become infected themselves), primary health care centres have remained open. The National Oncology Centre has rearranged facilities and modified schedules to reopen diagnostic units, which had been closed as part of measures to prevent COVID-19 transmission. The list of providers and facilities allowed to administer chemotherapy has been expanded. The National Oncology Centre and other hospitals provide shuttles to transport their personnel from and to their homes to compensate for the movement restrictions.