T. Sultangaziyev visited medical facilities and held a meeting with the population of the North Kazakhstan region

During a working visit to the North Kazakhstan region, First Vice Minister of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan Timur Sultangaziyev visited healthcare facilities, met with residents of the Kyzylzhar district and took part in a briefing for the media.

T. Sultangaziyev visited the intensive care and rehabilitation department of the multidisciplinary children's regional hospital. Here, on the basis of 370 round-the-clock and 30 day beds, all types of inpatient and outpatient care are provided.

The hospital has 10 clinical units, including intensive care, functional and radiation diagnostics departments, a consultative and diagnostic center, etc.

Then he got acquainted with the work of the radiation therapy department of the Oncology Center, where a new linear accelerator was launched, providing high-precision radiotherapy with minimal impact on healthy tissues.

Then the Vice Minister visited the district primary health care facilities: medical station "Rassvet" of Kyzylzhar district, rural health post "Chirikavka" of Yesil district and medical outpatient clinic "Lobanovo" of Aiyrtau district, outpatient clinic "Kellerovka" of Taiynsha district.

In addition, he got acquainted with the progress of repairs of the children's rehabilitation center at the outpatient clinic "Chkalovo" in Taiynsha district.

By the way, as part of the implementation of the National Project "Modernization of Rural Healthcare", the construction of 46 primary health care facilities has been completed in the region, the modernization of the Taiynsha multidisciplinary interdistrict hospital is underway, where departments of stroke and cardiology centers, medical rehabilitation, traumatology, surgery and intensive care will be opened. These measures will make medical care available to 55 thousand villagers. During a meeting with the First Vice Minister of Health, residents of the North Kazakhstan region raised pressing issues related to drug provision, accessibility of medical services, routine vaccination, etc. Timur Sultangaziyev provided detailed explanations for each request, and the Vice Minister took certain issues under his personal control.

Later, during a media briefing, Timur Sultangaziyev commented on current measures to improve the work of clinics, provide drugs, and attract medical workers to the region, noting that all changes are aimed at improving the availability and quality of medical services.

"Thanks to systemic measures, the region has achieved a positive increase in life expectancy: from 73.13 years in 2023 to 73.68 in 2024. There was also a decrease in mortality from injuries - by 8%, from respiratory diseases — by 5%. No cases of maternal mortality were registered in the first 5 months of this year," he said. There are 6.9 thousand medical workers in the region, including 1.7 thousand doctors and 5.2 thousand mid-level medical workers. However, there remains a shortage of 315 doctors and 496 nurses. In this regard, work is underway to improve medical education — in particular, it is planned to introduce differentiated grant sizes, distributing them depending on the level of the educational process.

"In order to expand the availability of screenings, the age of the target group of patients has been increased to 76 years. Evidence-based tests with high sensitivity, such as low-density lipoproteins, glycated hemoglobin, triglycerides are included. Also, from the second half of 2025, screening for early diagnosis of acute cerebrovascular accidents for men over 50 years old is being introduced. From the second half of this year, cancer screenings will be available to the uninsured within the guaranteed volume of medical care," T. Sultangaziyev explained.