Kazakhstan health news

17/08/2009
At the discussion in the Government Prime Minister Karim Massimov has urged to prepare proposals on general procurement of medical facilities under the free medical treatment plan. He urged the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Healthcare Ministry, Samruk-Kazyna Fund and SK-Farmatsiya LLP to submit proposals on the issue of procurement and leasing of medical equipment and medicaments. "We need to do this in order to develop our own production", - K. Massimov explained.

21/06/2009
Kazakh Minister of Healthcare Zhaksylyk Doskaliyev has congratulated medical workers of the country on their professional holiday. The Minister handled award pins For contribution to the Development of Healthcare and Distinguished Medical Worker of Kazakhstan including letters of award and grateful letters from the Ministry to medical workers whereas the grateful letters on behalf of Astana Mayor Imangali Tasmagambetov were handled out by Amerkhan Rakhimzhanov.

30/01/2009
Purchase and distribution of medicaments will be held by a unified system from July 1, 2009. Kazakh Minister of Healthcare Zhaksylyk Doskaliyev has announced it at the Ministry’s Collegium. "This scheme will ensure quality and safety of medicaments by obligatory certification of all batches of medicaments in the state laboratories. Medicaments will become more available", Z.Doskaliyev said.

17/11/2008
Rise in the cost of Kazakh health care projects within the program “100 SCHOOLS, 100 HOSPITALS” for the period 2007-2009 will amount to 22 billion. tenge. Vice Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Yerbol Orynbaev told about it at the governmental telephone conference.
This problem is growing. If in 2007 the cost of 24 health care facilities amounted to 6 billion tenge, in 2008 the cost of 17 projects is already 7.3 billion tenge. Moreover, in 2009 the declared cost demand for construction is 8.3 billion tenge. The total cost will reach 22 billion tenge, said Y. Orynbaev.
Y. Orynbaev added that the “100 schools 100 hospitals” project is aimed at building of 103 health care facilities. At present the total volume of financing of the project amounts to 300 billion tenge. There will be built 29 projects including 4 facilities of republican value in 2009. Seven projects are expected to be completed by the end of this year.

1/07/2008
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has visited the new Republican Diagnostics Centre, one of the objects of the medical cluster of Astana city.

5/03/2008
“More than KZT 12 billion was allocated to the development of healthcare in the capital of Kazakhstan in 2008. In 2007 this index was KZT 11.3 billion”, Director of Health Department Temirlan Karibekov said at the meeting of the stuff.
“Our main tasks in the current year are the continuation of the reform of polyclinics, reorganization of the hospital sector and solution of problems in the suburbs of the city”, T. Karibekov stated.
“The third part of the capital’s population lives in the suburbs. Thus the work of the family dispensary health units will be improved, new first aid stations will open”, he added.
According to the Health Department’s chief, in years to come Astana will open about 40 new objects of healthcare with about 16 thousand workplaces.

26/08/2007
"By the Day of the Capital in 2008 there will be put into commission 7 medical facilities in Astana," Kazakhstan Healthcare Minister Anatoly Dernovoi told at meeting of the state commission on Astana development and construction.
As stated there, the Ministry monitors the construction of medical objects within the creation of the national medical cluster. "Those facilities are a maternity and childhood centre designated for 600 beads, a republican child's rehabilitation centre for 300 bed, a diagnostics centre, an emergency call service institute, a scientific centre of surgery, a residential building for the medical professionals, and a cardiac surgery centre," the Minister said. 28/08/2007

4/04/2007
"Fee-based services of public health institutions will be abolished starting January 1, 2008", Vice Minister of the Healthcare Ministry of Kazakhstan Asem Nusupova highlighted during the sitting in the Government. "According to the Budget Code, paid services providing by the state healthcare institutions will be completely repealed since January 2008", she added.

24/03/2007
A total of 21 medical workers are on trial in the southern Kazakh city of Shymkent for their alleged role in causing the worst single HIV outbreak in Kazakhstan's independent history. Since the summer of 2006, almost 100 children who were treated at a children's hospital in Shymkent have tested positive for HIV after they were given blood transfusions as treatment for pneumonia and other illnesses. The Kazakh Government invited U.S. Centers for Disease Control to help investigate, and CDC later concluded transfusions of HIV-infected blood were main causes for the spread of virus.

6/02/2007
South Kazakhstan donors have been given codes. All the information on donors and movement of blood in the hospitals of the city and oblast will be filed in the computer system. These days such system is being installed only in the regional blood center, but this software will soon appear in each hospital.

19/01/2007
A criminal case concerning charges of HIV infection of children in the South Kazakhstan region is to open in Shymkent. Since the beginning of 2006, 87 children and 12 mothers have been tested positive for HIV, all of them infected during stays at Shymkent hospitals because of the irresponsibility of medical personnel. Eight of the children have died. A months-old inquest into the case has now been sent to court and legal proceeding will start at the Al-Farabi district court.

17/01/2007
An outbreak of viral hepatitis A has been registered in Semipalatinsk. Currently 60 residents of Semipalatinsk have been hospitalised. 45 of them are adults aged 25 - 35 and 10 children of pre-school and school age. The hepatitis A is an enteric infection and it appears as an ordinary influenza: the fever appears, accompanied by headaches and even vomiting, and followed by jaundice.

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