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Abstract
This study analyzes the developmental tendencies of healthcare infrastructure in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan and its potential ramifications for the burgeoning medical tourism sector. This research uses a regional statistics time-series data through a secondary data analysis registered from 2020–2024 in an urban and rural district-level as an overview of the deconcentrating of healthcare facilities, medical personnel, and patient treatment capacity. The results showed 50.5% lacks of hospital facilities over five years, with significant inter-regional differences: 47.8% of hospitals and 52% of physicians are located in the Bukhara city with the faraway regions such as Karovulbozor still having only 1.5% of the total HCW. This research identifies four key challenges: concentration of healthcare resources, the unsustainability of private healthcare provision in rural areas, inadequate bed supply in large urban districts, and quality variation influencing patient migration. Conclusion The results show that even if the Bukhara region has a fast-growing medical health care infrastructure that attracts medical tourists, regional unbalanced development shall be taken into account, which means specific investment in the non-academic private sector and primary care investments as the main approaches to sustainable development of the sector.