A regular meeting of the department's board was held in Astana under the chairmanship of the Minister of Health, where the forecast for achieving key industry indicators for 9 months of this year was presented.
More than 500 people took part in the work of the board, including the senior staff of the ministry, republican clinics and scientific institutes, subordinate organizations, health departments, rectors of medical universities, deputy akims.
Speaking to the participants of the board, Akmaral Alnazarova noted that in his Message to the people of Kazakhstan, the Head of State instructed to take comprehensive measures to strengthen the health of the nation and reboot the system of social support for citizens, set new tasks for the healthcare industry.
The following issues were discussed on the board's agenda: ensuring the availability and quality of medical care in rural areas, the state of industry statistics and new approaches to the purchase of medical care for 2025, including long-term contracts, as well as professional development of general practitioners.
First Vice Minister of Health T. Sultangaziev said that in July of this year, the National Development Plan of Kazakhstan until 2029 was approved, including key indicators and measures taking into account regional specifics. However, a number of indicators have been revised downwards due to systemic problems, and some regions are at risk of not achieving their goals.
Summarizing the results of the implementation of the indicators, the Minister instructed to develop a detailed plan for achieving indicators and measures with decomposition to the level of districts / cities, in a number of problem regions to work out the issue of creating working groups with the participation of research institutes, NC, medical schools with the involvement of the main freelance specialists of the department.
On the development of rural health, Vice Minister Yerzhan Nurlybayev noted in his report the need to review approaches to the organization of medical care in rural areas, taking into account population density, climatic and geographical features and other factors.
To ensure the accessibility and quality of medical care to the rural population, the Minister instructed to consider the development of a National project for the development of telemedicine services for rural healthcare, to develop roadmaps to ensure drug accessibility to the rural population, as well as to attract, consolidate and professionally adapt young specialists in rural areas, to improve the tariff policy at the level of rural healthcare, taking into account the peculiarities of rural healthcare.
The third important topic of discussion at the board meeting was the state of industry statistics, which represents the foundation on which decisions are made to ensure public health, resources are planned and the results of various programs are evaluated.
To improve the quality and effectiveness of medical statistics, the head of the department instructed to conduct an audit of regulations in the field of industry statistics with further updating.
In addition, to create specialized centers for Disease Coding on the basis of multidisciplinary medical organizations and to staff trained specialists in this profile, to organize widespread training and advanced training of medical workers.
The next topic on the agenda of the meeting was the professional development of general practitioners (GPS), which is especially important in conditions of low availability of specialized care in some regions of the country. This year, universities have trained more than 9 thousand gps, which is 78% of the total number of doctors.
"In order to further strengthen the competencies of primary health care practitioners and provide qualified medical personnel to the regions, I declare 2025 the year of advanced training. At the same time, professional development should concern not only medical professionals, but also the teaching staff of universities and colleges. It is necessary to work out the issue of adaptation and development of mentoring for young professionals starting work," the Minister stressed.
Within the framework of this direction, instructions were given to develop and approve educational programs of additional education for practicing doctors and general practice nurses, to provide for the use of digital technologies and electronic medical systems in practice in the educational programs of interns and residents, future nurses, and to update educational internship and residency programs for training specialists "General Medical Program (Family Medicine)".

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/dsm/press/news/details/889137