As part of the instructions of the Head of State, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan is implementing a wide range of measures to improve the quality and accessibility of medical care in rural areas.
Transport medicine is a dynamically developing area of increasing the availability of medical care to residents.
Mobile medical complexes (MCS) are also actively operating in order to increase the availability of medical services for residents of remote areas of the country.
In 2024, 1.2 million residents of 3,072 settlements received access to medical consultations and diagnostic procedures through “polyclinics on wheels.”
With the help of mobile complexes, 1.2 million consultations were conducted by specialized specialists, 656 thousand diagnostic, 333 thousand laboratory tests.
As a result of the examinations, 95 thousand patients with various diseases were identified, 78.3% of them are adults, 21.7% are children. According to the results of professional examinations, 33.7 thousand rural residents were taken for medical supervision.
In 2024, 104,000 residents of 128 stations, including 21,000 children, were provided with the services of the Salamatty Kazakhstan Medical Train, which is 20% more than in the previous year.
The specialists of the medical train provided 240,000 medical services, including 12,500 dental procedures, 25,000 laboratory tests, 8,000 minor surgical operations, and 24,000 instrumental and diagnostic examinations.
During the examinations, 5,500 patients with various diseases were identified and provided with the necessary care.

The systematic updating of medical infrastructure in rural areas continues within the framework of the National Project “Modernization of Rural Healthcare”.
In 2024, the construction of 460 facilities was completed, and another 195 PHC facilities will be commissioned in 2025.
For the first time, day hospitals, physiotherapy rooms for outpatient rehabilitation, and laboratory rooms with the opportunity to undergo examinations without leaving the district have appeared in new rural outpatient clinics and medical and obstetric centers.
Rural patients can receive remote consultations from leading doctors from regional and republican clinics in equipped telemedicine rooms. Telemedicine services have been increased by 2 times in a year.
In order to make high-tech medical care available to rural residents, 32 district hospitals will continue to be modernized in 2025, on the basis of which cardiology centers, departments of traumatology, intensive care, surgery equipped with angiographs, CT, and MRI will be opened.
These measures will ensure timely provision of emergency medical care to the rural population for heart attacks, strokes, injuries and other conditions in compliance with the "golden hour" principle, which will reduce mortality from these diseases by 20%.
Innovations in attracting medical personnel to rural areas: young doctors with acute shortage profiles who choose employment in rural areas receive additional financial incentives, preferential housing loans and opportunities for professional growth.
To date, 4,148 medical graduates have been sent to the regions, of which 1,233 doctors have been assigned to rural settlements.
A total of 544 graduates received social support. For the first time in the country's regions, 89 rural doctors, including obstetricians and gynecologists, anesthesiologists, resuscitators, surgeons, are provided with lump-sum payments in the amount of 100 minimum wages or 8.5 million tenge.
As a result of an integrated approach to improving rural healthcare in Kazakhstan, the incidence rate has decreased by 12.9% over the past 5 years, including the urban population by 15.1% and the rural population by 9.3%.
A number of high-tech medical projects in the field of maternal and child health are being scaled throughout the country.
The One-Day Clinics project ensures the availability of innovative methods of prenatal diagnosis of pregnant women and timely identification of the risk of having a child with congenital malformations and chromosomal pathology, high-quality services based on the "one-stop shop" principle, obtaining fast and accurate research results within 1 day.
For the first time in Kazakhstan, the Fetal Medicine project was launched, 20 intrauterine operations were successfully performed.
These technologies are designed to correct and treat the early pathological conditions of the fetus using minimally invasive procedures. They will be available to residents of rural areas in order to prevent disability among the child population.
Creating equal conditions in healthcare for residents of villages and towns is a key vector of the national project.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/dsm/press/news/details/915795