A two-day online training course to support capacity-building of government institutions to engage with the public and media during health emergencies, organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, started on 7 September 2021.
Representatives from the Ministry of Health and the Medical Industry, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Parliament (Mejlis), the Ministry of Defense, the State Customs Service and other key government agencies and national and private media participated in the training course.
International experts from Kyrgyzstan shared examples from their country to discuss the benefits of developing a single channel of dissemination to promote health related information and avoid disinformation. Other subjects covered include, effective channels for dissemination of information, principles of relations between organizations and mass media, forms of teamwork for interaction between organizations and public through media.