During the summer season, the “Mollakara” sanatorium in the Balkan velayat welcomes numerous visitors who come here to relax and improve their health. The new international airport near the city of Jebel is located several kilometers from the sanatorium, which creates a number of advantages for visitors to the health resort, reports “Turkmenistan: Golden Age”.

The resort is famous for its therapeutic mud and mineral waters, rich in healing salts. A significant role in the popularity of the sanatorium is played by the salt lake of the same name located on its territory.

Occupying an area of 30 hectares, the sanatorium is a unique resort town. There are specialized centers for cultural recreation of guests, an amphitheater, a beauty salon, a hairdresser, a swimming pool, a hammam, a sauna, billiards and tennis halls, sports grounds. All facilities of the complex are equipped with modern medical equipment and the necessary resources.

The modern complex of buildings of the sanatorium includes a six-story main building with a total capacity of 500 beds. There is also a medical and diagnostic building, a two-story cosmetology center, a hotel for 170 beds, a reconstructed two-story medical and rehabilitation building, a building with a children's department for 30 beds, a canteen for 250 seats, a library, an Internet cafe, restaurants, shops.

In addition to mud therapy, salt baths, physiotherapy, exercise therapy and diagnostics departments, patients are offered procedures using cold air flow, high atmospheric pressure, hot sand of the Karakum, ozone, hot stones, as well as inhalation procedures with salt and mineral air.

The main focus is on the treatment of diseases of the nervous system, musculoskeletal system, gynecological, genitourinary system, rheumatism.

Hot mud procedures have a beneficial effect on health and treatment of various diseases. Alternating mud and mineral baths can significantly alleviate symptoms of salt deposits in the knee joints, and helps relieve pain in the lumbar spine. When heated and applied correctly, mud becomes a unique means of preventing and treating colds, relieving ear pain, and eliminating skin rashes. The complex, equipped with modern medical equipment, provides rehabilitation and treatment for people with spinal and bone injuries.