UN opens GDO in Almaty; More UN agencies want hub offices in Kazakhstan
UN agencies are interested in opening hub offices in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Suicidal youth not taken seriously in Kazakhstan: UNICEF
A quarter of Kazakhstani teenagers who committed suicide had talked about it before the actual act with their friends or family.
HIV positive: gender and age trends in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan’s Center for Prevention and Combating AIDS observes changes in the age and gender statistics for new HIV cases.
New Vice Minister of Healthcare and Social Development appointed in Kazakhstan
Alexey Tsoy has been appointed the new Vice Minister of Healthcare and Social Development in Kazakhstan.
More Kazakhstanis to seek medical help in South Korea with visa free regime
The visa free regime between South Korea and Kazakhstan will increase the flow of health tourists in 2015.
Artificial blood from petroleum products to be produced in Kazakhstan
Scientists from Kazakhstan have developed a new method of production of artificial blood from petroleum products.
Medical tourism - growing sector in Kazakhstan
Medical tourism is a growing sector in Kazakhstan with more than 800 foreign nationals coming to the country to be treated, including from the US, Japan and Italy.
Kazakh businessmen send generator to Kyrgyz hospital after doctors perform open heart surgery with no electricity
Kazakh businessmen have raised money for a generator and sent the equipment to the Kyrgyz hospital, where doctors had to scandalously make a open heart surgery during an blackout.
29 school students and teachers faint one after another in Western Kazakhstan
25 school children and 4 teachers fainted in a Western Kazakhstan village school one after another.
Infertility of couples in Kazakhstan is due to 'questionable Western values' and promiscuity: expert
Director of Kazakhstan's Center for Healthy Lifestyle Marat Kurmanov said that an alarming number of infertile young couples in Kazakhstan is due to questionable values that was inoculated in the Kazakh society in the 1990s.
Kazakhstan is medically and legally ready for cadaveric donation
Medical specialists discussed Kazakhstan’s readiness for cadaveric donation both in legal and medical terms at New Vision of Transplantology press conference.
First kidney transplantation in Kyzylorda
For the firs time, a kidney transplantation has been conducted in Kyzylorda.
Kazakh MP points to ineffectiveness of healthcare projects
Chairman of the Committee for Finance and Budget in Parliament’s Lower Chamber Karagusova pointed to the discrepancy between the costs and payoff of state-sponsored healthcare projects.
Controversial methadone therapy may become nationwide in Kazakhstan by 2016
According to the head of the National Scientific and Practical Center on Medical and Social Problems of Drug Abuse, methadone therapy also known as opioid substitution therapy (OST) may become nationwide in Kazakhstan in 2016.
Birth rate goes 25% up in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan has had an increase in birth rate and decease in mortality rate.
'We are either bad at treating or bad at diagnosing' - state oncological aid in Kazakhstan
Oncologist Nasrulla Shanazarov reported on the state of oncological help in Kazakhstan at the recent International Oncological Symposium.
Kazakhstan and Turkey show highest suicide rates among 15-19 y.o. youth
Kazakhstan and Turkey have the highest suicide level among 15 to 19 year olds in the world.
UNICEF research denies connection between of Unified National Testing and suicide rates among Kazakhstani teens
The UNICEF research of suicide among teens in Kazakhstan refutes negative effect of the Unified National Testing.
Kazakhstani village youth more prone to suicide than city teens
The Prosecutor General’s Office reported higher level of suicides among village teens in comparison to their city peers.
Alarming tendencies and suicidal behaviour among Kazakhstani teens: UNICEF Youth Health Development
A committee on social and cultural development discussed results of their suicide survey among teenagers in Kazakhstan.