Kazakhstan health news

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 "According to the Budget Code, paid services providing by the state healthcare institutions will be completely repealed since January 2008", she added.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.