The path to development

In the traditional Message to the people of Kazakhstan by the Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev “Fair Kazakhstan: law and order, economic growth, public optimism”, the healthcare sector was not left without attention. The Head of State gave specific instructions for the implementation of appropriate measures to resolve important issues in this area as soon as possible.

“…For the development of domestic healthcare, it is necessary to actively attract resources through the mechanism of public-private partnership. Unfortunately, the best foreign experience of public-private partnership has not yet been fully reflected in our legislation, which leads to inefficiency of projects and excessive burden on the budget. It is necessary to reconsider approaches, it is important to provide adequate tariffs in exchange for investments. The Government should form separate regulations and rules on public-private partnerships for the fields of health and education.

The problem of shortage of qualified medical personnel remains urgent. To solve it, it is necessary to significantly improve the quality of medical education, including by introducing differentiated grant sizes and distributing them depending on the level of the educational process,” Kassym-Jomart Kemelovich said.

As they say: “Health is the first wealth.” All this will contribute to further improving the health of the nation in deeds, not in words.