SOME ISSUES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SERVISE OF THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC

Abstract

Establishment and development of Ophthalmology in the Kyrgyz Republic fall within the period of pre­revolutionary Russia and the USSR. The Board of Trusteeship of blind of Saint - Petersburg and People’s Commissariat of Public Health of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic played an important role in it. Training of own Ophthalmological Personnel started from 1939, when there was organized the eye clinic. The founder of the Ophthalmological Service of the Republic was professor O.A. Dudinov.