Stage 1
dividing up joint responsibility of the state and population for health;
-   setting up minimum standards for the guaranteed benefits package;
-   working with the population to promote healthy lifestyle;
-    transferring focus from in-patient to primary health care;
-   separating PHC from in-patient services both financially and administratively;
-   strengthening material/ technical base of health facilities, primarily PHC;
-  rationalizing in-patient and emergency care services;
-  implementing of actions to strengthen maternal and child health;
- strengthening preventive, diagnostic and treatment and rehabilitation measures related to diseases which take a large toll on society;
- establishing a system of independent medical audit to allow for the provision of quality of health care services;
- introducing economic relationships between health facilities;
-  training health managers and improving of health resource management;
- improving quality of training and retraining systems for medical and pharmaceutical staff to meet the needs of the new PHC system;
-  improving the legal and regulatory framework for the health system;
- taking action to bring the system up to international health standards;
-  developing and implementing modern information technologies.