In 2024, 18 new educational facilities with 11.7 thousand student places were put into operation in Almaty. These measures taken will allow reducing the shortage of places to 3-4 thousand places in the next academic year. In 2025, the construction of another 15 schools with a capacity of 27.3 thousand places will be completed within the framework of the “Cozy School” national project.

In addition, the “Almaty Schools” standard has been introduced in the city. Within the framework of this standard, transportation of state school students has been organized, and the number of school buses has increased to 200. With the help of these buses, 15.3 thousand students will be safely transported to schools. In 2025, the number of buses will increase by another 100 units.

Much attention is being paid to the modernization and development of the infrastructure of city schools. This year, 168 new modified classrooms were purchased for them in 89 schools. This made it possible to equip 86.3 percent of schools with modern subject classrooms.

This year, a unique initiative was launched in Almaty to transfer 43 schools in the city to single-shift teaching. In the long term, it is planned to transfer at least 40% of schools to single-shift teaching by the end of 2027, which is approximately 95 schools. This will allow for organizing extracurricular activities in free time. Also, the transition to single-shift teaching will help ease the burden on children and teachers in a two-shift situation.

At the same time, as part of the implementation of the Head of State's task to provide 97 percent of children aged three to six with preschool education by 2025, work is continuing on the construction and reconstruction of five kindergartens in the city.

Development of healthcare infrastructure:In 2024, financing for the healthcare sector increased by 25%, and the main focus was on infrastructure modernization.

During the year, the Almaty city maslikhat approved a unified standard for primary health care. Within the framework of this standard, 4 primary health care centers and 1 polyclinic were built, and design and estimate documentation for the construction and modernization of 32 facilities was developed.

In 2024, for the first time in Kazakhstan, an early intervention center was created aimed at reducing disability among children. In addition, a Children's Emergency Medical Care Center was opened, and work on protecting children's health was strengthened.

  New technologies and approaches are being introduced in the healthcare sector. In 2024, the "Fetal Surgery" pilot project was launched for the first time in Kazakhstan. Now Almaty has the ability to perform up to 150 intrauterine surgeries per year.

  In addition, the volume of support for patients with orphan diseases has increased. In 2024, medicines for 45 different nosologies for the amount of 9.2 billion tenge were provided for 3,753 patients. This allowed increasing funding by 10% compared to the previous year.

  Emergency medical care is also being improved. Over the past two years, the fleet has been updated by 37%, including the purchase of 55 ambulances in 2023, and the commissioning of 48 new ones in 2024.

As a result of the measures taken, significant achievements have been achieved in the field of healthcare, including a 48.2% decrease in maternal mortality, a 5.4% decrease in infant mortality, and a 16% decrease in deaths from cancer.

In Almaty, measures aimed at developing the education and healthcare infrastructure have contributed to ensuring the social stability of the city.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/almaty/press/news/details/909936