On May 17, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Health Yelzhan Birtanov commented on the necessity to build new hospitals in Kazakhstan on his official Facebook page, Toppress.kz correspondent reports.
That is true we have decided to focus on prevention and early detection of diseases. To this end, we are currently developing outpatient care. However, inpatient care should be developed as well. Cardiac surgeons and neurosurgeons still have to save people from heart attacks and strokes, and traumatologists should treat polytrauma patients. Children with congenital and acquired defects need surgery, and adults need transplants of joints or other organs and tissues. All this and much more can be done only in stationary conditions, he wrote.
In Minister’s words, more than 80% of hospitals in Kazakhstan were built during the Soviet times, while more than 20% are located in adapted buildings (former dormitories, kindergartens, etc.). The total depreciation of hospital buildings is more than 60%.
In such conditions, it is simply impossible to develop advanced technologies, they are not comfortable for patients and staff, and hamper the professional growth of medical workers. The entire progressive world is building new clinics, and our citizens are eager to get into modern hospitals in South Korea, Germany or Turkey. Therefore, we must build new hospitals, attracting foreign partners, introducing advanced medical technologies and training our specialists. Only under these circumstances, having access to modern technologies, will our doctors rise to a new professional level, Yelzhan Birtanov noted.
