A republican forum of children's healthcare specialists is being held in Shymkent these days.
The participants of the seminar-meeting discuss the most relevant range of tasks and issues for improving the organization of medical care for children for the country's pediatric service.
In the face of growing challenges and rapid changes in the healthcare sector, pediatrics remains one of the most important areas of medicine, providing children not only with competent diagnosis and timely treatment, but also disease prevention, the formation of healthy habits from an early age.
"We intend to improve existing preventive care, develop new successful types of care, digital technologies aimed at preventing manageable causes of child mortality. The role of broad immunization coverage, the widespread implementation of a universal progressive patronage model in polyclinics is extremely important, and the infrastructure of children's hospitals needs to be improved," Minister of Health Akmaral Alnazarova noted in her welcoming speech.
The seminar participants discussed changes in the Standard of organization of pediatric care in terms of the work of the patronage service, the creation of an organizational structure at the PHC level of Development and Early Intervention Centers.
Special attention was paid to the issues of professional development of pediatricians, the introduction of new technologies into medical practice, as well as improving interdisciplinary interaction between pediatricians, therapists and other specialists.
The meeting will become a platform for the productive exchange of experience and knowledge, and will also contribute to the introduction of new approaches and practices in pediatric medicine.
As a result of the forum, practical recommendations will be developed for the implementation of national priorities in the regions of the country.
More than 6.8 million children live in Kazakhstan today, which means that every third citizen is a child. Of these, a third or 2.4 million children are toddlers under 5 years old. About 400 thousand newborns are born in the country every year. Almost 1.5 million children are residents of Shymkent and Turkestan region, which makes the choice of the region for this forum not accidental.
The meeting is attended by health organizers from all regions of the country, chief freelance specialists of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, representatives of scientific and republican centers, as well as representatives of WHO and UNICEF in Kazakhstan, practicing doctors.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/dsm/press/news/details/883750