Chief Oncologist of the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development Kuanysh Nurgaviyev has reported on positive trends in the oncological situation in Kazakhstan and explained the increase of new cancer cases.
Minister of Health and Social Development of Kazakhstan Tamara Duisenova said that doctors in Kazakhstan would not be allowed to fill out papers while treating patients.
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 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.
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.
Medical specialists discussed Kazakhstan’s readiness for cadaveric donation both in legal and medical terms at New Vision of Transplantology press conference.
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.
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.
