A brief overview of the health system in Mongolia

In a 2007 the World Bank reported that “Mongolia has inherited a large, inefficient hospital network that provides a low quality of care. Mongolia has more hospital beds than almost any country in the world. In Ulaanbaatar (UB), the number of hospitals and hospital beds is staggering and in rural areas, the hospital system is overdeveloped in a peculiarly Soviet way, with large numbers of poorly trained health personnel operating virtually without any equipment or modern pharmaceuticals. Many of these hospitals are almost empty shells and cannot provide the level of health services needed to affect health outcomes.”1

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