Draconian new restrictions on Uzbekistan doctors travelling abroad have prompted warnings of more problems in the central Asian state's troubled health-care sector.Health-care workers in the capital Tashkent have privately said that the new law, which forces doctors to submit presentations and speeches abroad for government approval among other things, is an instrument for ruling authorities to stop the outside world discovering the real state of the health-care sector.One health worker in Tashkent, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Lancet: "Uzbek health care is atrocious. The authorities jail AIDS activists, women are scared of having forced sterilisations, and limiting doctors from going abroad is just another attempt to keep how bad it is under wraps."
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