There are no geriatric clinics. Old age homes, such as they are, are little better than penal dormitories. Medicines are frequently unavailable from state pharmacies. When they can be purchased privately they are almost always beyond the means of pensioners. A bottle of aspirin, for example, costs, on average, as 2 and half days of pension payments.
People have to choose between food and medicine.
They live lives of pain and hunger. The level of social welfare remains extremely low. Last year, about 50 percent of the population had incomes equal to or lower than the subsistence level. All of these circumstances are worse in the countryside and rural areas. Please tell us what it is.