Bashkuev V Iu, Ratmanov P E
The Federal State Budget Institution of Science "The Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences", 670047, Ulan-Ude, Russia,
The Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education "The Far Eastern State Medical University" of Minzdrav of Russia, 680000, Khabarovsk, Russia.
Probl Sotsialnoi Gig Zdravookhranenniiai Istor Med. 2020 Sep;28(5):1027-1032. doi: 10.32687/0869-866X-2020-28-5-1027-1032.
In 1920s - late 1980s, active cooperation between the USSR and Mongolia in the field of medicine and health care had been occurred. The Mongolian People's Republic was the first country to which the USSR exported its organization of health care system, using it as a means of geopolitical influence and instrument of the socialist transformation of traditional nomadic society. At the same time, assistance to Mongolia began when the USSR itself had not yet completed the organization of new health care system, including needed medical personnel and resources, receiving assistance from Germany and other European countries. The article discusses the reasons of the Soviet leadership's hasty decision to force assistance to the Mongolian People's Republic in the field of medicine and health care. Two approaches to its implementation are singled out and explained: the evolutionary one, when experienced Soviet doctors were selected and sent to the Mongolian Department of Health care, and the forced one - through organization of expeditions of the People's Commissariat of Health of the RSFSR, which simultaneously studied the medical and sanitary situation in the country and organized medical institutions where the assistance was needed the most.
