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In addition, there is the Medical Therapeutic Department of the Yakut State 

 University which is involved mainly in applied scientific problems. 



Because these subdivisions are poorly equipped and hence have low scientific 

 potential, however, they are not capable of maintaining long-term scientific relations with 

 major science centers in Russia and abroad on an equal basis. This was the reason that 

 this republic has been utilized for a long time as a data-gathering scientific base for 

 other scientific medical institutions of this country, while the Republic's public health 

 system has received nothing in return. 



This compelled the leadership of the Republic to accept the decision by the 

 President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) to create the National Institute of Health 

 of the Peoples of Yakutia on the basis of these subdivisions. 



The Working Commission on settin^g up such an Institute has suggested the 

 following basic scientific sectors, taking into account priorities in the public health needs 

 of the republic (Figure 3): 



1. Ecological problems of medicine. 



2. Ecological pathology of tuberculosis. 



3. Biology of Vilyuy encephalomyelitis. 



4. Health and regional public health economics. 



5. Folk medicine of the peoples of Yakutia. 



