Although Kyrgyzstan's legislation does not prohibit the presence of relatives during childbirth, the technical conditions in Bishkek medical facilities do not allow for this. According to the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic, the key obstacles are room layout features, the need to comply with sanitary and epidemiological safety, and protecting the privacy of other patients.
Reasons and legal aspects
From the document
"The presence of a close person during childbirth is permitted if appropriate conditions are available in the medical organization and safety requirements are met."
The agency specified that such procedures require special conditions that are currently absent in most of the city's state institutions. For example, in Clinical Maternity Hospital No. 2, private rooms are not provided at all—two to four women in labor may be in one room simultaneously.
Workload on medical institutions
The situation is complicated by the high intensity of work in maternity hospitals. The Ministry provided data on the average daily workload in various city institutions:
In the City Perinatal Center, only two out of 12 available delivery rooms are single-occupancy. Meanwhile, Maternity Hospital No. 1 recorded 3,521 births during the first 10 months of 2026.
