The medical school in the new center of Ahal will be named after a famous doctor

The secondary vocational medical school located in the new administrative center of the Akhal velayat was named after doctor, doctor of medical sciences Sachly Dursunova.

A resolution to this effect was published today in the newspaper Neitralnyi Turkmenistan by the Mejlis of the Milli Gengesh of Turkmenistan.

"To give the name of Sachly Dursunova, an outstanding personality who has received several state awards, doctor of medical sciences, to the secondary professional medical educational institution and henceforth to call it "Akhal velayat medical secondary professional school named after Sachly Dursunova," reads the document.

Sachli Dursunova was a military surgeon. During the Great Patriotic War she went the way from Stalingrad to East Prussia and, being in the most dangerous areas of combat operations, saved the lives of hundreds of soldiers.