The ex-Soviet nation of Turkmenistan has forced the last international NGO - medical aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) - to shut down despite "deeply alarming" rates of tuberculosis, the group said Thursday. "We had hoped to be able to assist the Turkmen population which is exposed to high rates of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, but still has no access to care and effective treatment," Frank Doerner, general director at MSF said in a statement.
MSF, which has worked in the isolated Central Asian nation since 1999, was the last international non-governmental organisation operating in the country.
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