The following problems concerning renting of land were mentioned (again ranked according to frequency):
• Lack of Kyrgyz citizenship;
• Problems receiving land from the Land Redistribution Fund (LRF);
• Problems receiving a land plot;
• Lack of available land in the LRF;
• Administrative barriers;
• Not enough money to rent land / land rent is too high;
• Lack of Kyrgyz citizenship prohibits LRF from granting land.
Many respondents were insufficiently informed about the procedures for renting land. Lack
of documents proving Kyrgyz citizenship was another common problem, and so were high
rents. In general the situation with regard to plots has become critical - fraud at local level has
become frequent because of a dramatic increase in land prices.
Approximately 30 percent of respondents have indicated difficulties in accessing health
services. This indicator varies greatly between districts. While only 7 and 1 respondents
complained in Chui and Sokuluk districts respectively, Panfilov rayon had 307 respondents
with problems accessing medical services, or 68 percent of all respondents surveyed in this
district.
Most respondents only use private health services, presumably because their legal status
does not grant them access to the same benefits as Kyrgyz citizens.
Table 16: Access to health services
Medical services
yes
no
Receive all medical services free
of charge, medicines at reduced
prices
3
0.28%
1056
99.72%
Receive all medical services free
of charge, but medicines have to
be paid for in full
26
2.46%
1033
97.54%
945
89.24%
114
10.76%
43
4.06%
1016
95.94%
Only receive private medical
services
Do not receive any health
services
Asked why they do not receive health services, the respondents gave the following answers
(in order of frequency):
• Not enough money;
• Do not know why not;
• Lack of Kyrgyz citizenship;
• Lack of documents;
• Lack of money and time.
The main obstacles to health services therefore appear to be lack of money and absence of
Kyrgyz citizenship which would entitle respondents to services at reduced prices.
14 percent of the respondents mentioned that they had legal problems (see table 15). In par-
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