The Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Yeraly Tugzhanov got acquainted with the work of the modular infectious diseases hospital in Almaty
As part of a working trip to the city of Almaty, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Yeraly Tugzhanov visited the modular branch of the Children's City Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital, which was put into operation in October of this year.
Using the example of a modular hospital, the Deputy Prime Minister got acquainted with the implementation of a disease management model in the metropolis.
The Deputy Akim of Almaty, Yerzhan Babakumarov announced the readiness of the infrastructure of the healthcare system to work in the conditions of COVID-19. In Almaty today, there are 23 hospitals with 7011 beds, 74 polyclinics, on the basis of which 298 mobile teams work for on-site monitoring of patients, and the work of ambulance and patient routing have been transferred to new algorithms.
At the same time, the material and technical base of clinics has been strengthened. According to Zhanar Madeyeva, Deputy Head of the Almaty Public Health Department, more than 4,200 pieces of equipment were purchased for 74 hospitals and clinics, within the framework of the modernization program for equipping organizations with medical equipment. A city-wide program is also being implemented to provide first-echelon hospitals with a centralized system of medical gases, including oxygen. A regime of biological safety of sewage effluents of medical organizations of the city was introduced. Control over the disposal of medical waste has been strengthened.
The Deputy Prime Minister was informed that the new modular infectious diseases hospital is designed for 300 beds. Yerzhan Seralin, the chief physician of the Almaty Children's Infectious Diseases Hospital, said that a total of 320 medical staff work in the hospital. There are 8 departments, including 2 blocks with boxed wards. The intensive care unit has 30 beds, a department with a PCR laboratory. At the same time, oxygen with humidification is installed in each ward (16 tons of liquid oxygen, 8 tons of oxygen is already filled). In the intensive care unit and in the emergency department, 3 types of gas are supplied.
In turn, Gulnara Iskakova, Director of the Almaty city branch of the Republican State Enterprise on the Right of Economic Management "Republican Center for Electronic Health", presented new digital administration tools aimed at online monitoring of the epidemiological situation in the city for prompt response and management. Among them, a system for analyzing the quarantine regime based on anonymized data of mobile telecom operators, a system for analyzing ambulance calls, a system for analyzing the localization of healthcare facilities and determining the walking distance of PHC, and also a single bank of CT, MRI, X-ray images with direct access for urban hospitals.
Following the visit to the facility, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Yeraly Tugzhanov noted that work with people at risk should be conducted separately. Their hospitalization is carried out first. Along with this, attention was paid to testing and vaccination issues. On the territory of the modular branch of the hospital, there is a laboratory department where up to 2 thousand PCR studies for COVID-19 are carried out. It is planned to increase to 5 thousand.
As part of his working trip, Yeraly Tugzhanov noted that the first phase of clinical trials of the Kazakh vaccine was completed. In turn, according to the interim report on the II phase of studies, the vaccine showed high efficiency.
Currently, the Scientific Research Institute of Biological Safety Problems of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, together with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, have begun preparatory work for the III phase of research.