Health systems in transition : Uzbekistan

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5.7 Rehabilitation/intermediate care
Rehabilitation services are provided by the Ministry of Health, state companies 
or sectors (a legacy of the Soviet period), and the private sector (a post-Soviet 
development). Rehabilitation services within the Ministry of Health system 
are funded, regulated and managed by the Ministry of Health. More common 
used to be parallel rehabilitative services by state companies or sectors, which 
offered access to their respective state employees, but these declined in the 
post-Soviet period or were sold off to the private sector. Private rehabilitative 
institutions need to be registered with the Ministry of Health and generally 
operate as commercial enterprises. Over recent years, there has been a 
substantial increase in the number of private providers of rehabilitative services. 
These entities are either stand-alone facilities focusing on a combination of 
leisure and rehabilitative services or private clinics providing rehabilitative 
services in addition to medical services.