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The Ministry of Public Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan is a central executive authority, which directs and, in the range stipulated by the Law, realizes inter-sectoral coordination in the field of citizens’ health protection and medical and pharmaceutical education.
The principal problems of the Ministry are: to create a state policy in the field of protection of population’s health, medical science, medical and pharmaceutical education; to organize supplying of population and treatment-and-prophylaxis organizations with safety, effective and qualitative medicines; to organize and develop international collaboration in the range of Ministry’s competence.
The Ministry has the following agencies: the Committee of national sanitary-and-epidemiological control, the Committee of Pharmacy and the Committee of medical services quality control.
The Ministry implements its activity in accordance with the Constitution and the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the acts of the President and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the other legal acts and the present Decree.
The Ministry is a juridical authority in the legal-organizational form of state institution. It has seals and stamps with its own appellations in official language, fixed forms, and according to the Law, bank accounts in the Exchequer agencies of the Ministry of Finance of RK.
The Ministry starts civil terms in its own name.
In case of authorizing by the Law the Ministry has a right in the name of the state to be one of the parts in civil terms.
The Ministry takes solutions in the range of its competence, which are formalized by the orders of the Minister and valid on the territory of Kazakhstan.
The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan confirms the limit of state number of the Ministry.
News
05.12.2008
The Committee of state sanitary-epidemiological control of the Ministry of Public Health informs that for the period from November 29 to December 5, 2008 on railway points of state frontier 26 freights with products were held up because there were not appropriate documents. More details>>>
04.12.2008
The Minister of Public Health of RK introduced a responsible secretary and newly assigned vice-ministers to the agency’s stuff. More details>>>
04.12.2008
A meeting of agency's college under chairmanship of Zhaksylyk Doskaliyev was held today in Astana. More details>>>
28.11.2008
About flu prevention. More details>>>
28.11.2008
December 1 – the World Day of struggle against AIDS. More details>>>
28.11.2008
About flu prevention.More details>>>
27.11.2008
The problem of supplying of population with qualitative potable water is not solved yet. More details>>>
26.11.2008
ARVI (acute respiratory viral infection) rate for the period from October 1 to November 21, 2008. More details>>>
24.11.2008
At the national scientific center of maternity and childhood there was conducted a two-day seminar on medical waste control within the bounds of TOXCARE project on dangerous substances and medical waste control.More details>>>
20.11.2008
On the basis of “Kazakhstan medical academy” corporation, the Ministry of Public Health of RK has held a conference devoted to after-IHE and additional medical and pharmaceutical education.More details>>>
19.11.2008
According to the Decree of the Head of State, Zhaksylyk Doskaliyev was assigned as a Minister of Public Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan. More details>>>
17.11.2008
Today on the conference call of the Government of RK the results of Public Health authorities’ activity for 10 months of the current year were considered.More details>>>
15.11.2008
The rates of children’s disability and traumatism in Kazakhstan by January 1, 2008. More details>>>
14.11.2008
Taking into account a lot of appeals of citizens, working in 2–3 and more organizations, in case of illness, an original of medical certificates can be given only for a place of employment. For rest organizations a copy will be enough.More details>>>
12.11.2008
The Committee of national sanitary-and-epidemiological control of the Republic of Kazakhstan advises parents to pay attention to license availability when choosing preschool organizations. More details>>>
10.11.2008
With support of the Ministry of Public Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan took place an official ceremony of awarding of competition winners with special grant in the field of medicine, promoted by the company “Sanofy-Aventis Group”. More details>>>
08.11.2008
The Minister of Public Health on the Republic conference in the South-Kazakhstan oblast gave utterance to the results of 10 months of the current year. More details>>>
07.11.2008
In Shimkent there were at once opened two new institutions, the equipment level of which doesn’t have any analogues in Kazakhstan. They are: the Center of Blood and the Center of Sterilization. This evening Nursultan Nazarbayev visited these centers. A quality of Public Health has become a key theme of the President’s business trip journey to the South-Kazakhstan oblast. More details>>>
05.11.2008
At the national scientific center of “maternity and childhood” took place a conference on problems of training of medical personnel of obstetrical organizations in the Kyzylorda, West-Kazakhstan and Mangystau oblasts. More details>>>
04.11.2008
The Kazakhstan patients with different degrees of diseases have happily returned from Cuba, where they had a half-year medical rehabilitation. More details>>>
01.11.2008
In the issue of gastroenterologists’ theoretical and practical forum “Precursor of cancer in gastroenterology. Modern diagnostics, treatment and prevention techniques”, was adopted the resolution. More details>>>
15.10.2008
Today in Almaty there was the opening of the International Conference on the primary healthcare (PHC). Conference is devoted to 30th Anniversary of Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Healthcare – one of basic documents of world system of public health services named “Great Charter of public health services of XX century”, for the first time proclaimed a principle of the equal right to health for all people. More details>>>
WHO Regional Office for Europe photograph competition:
The WHO Regional Office for Europe invites photographers to submit photographs offering an interpretation of today's health systems
The Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization (WHO) is organizing a photograph competition to showcase contemporary images of health systems in the 53 countries of the WHO European Region.
Applications must be received by 31 March 2008 at the latest.
The competition supports the WHO European Ministerial Conference on Health Systems: “Health Systems, Health and Wealth”, organized by the Regional Office and hosted by the Government of Estonia, which will take place in Tallinn on 25–27 June 2008.
Taking into account the Conference theme, “Health Systems, Health and Wealth”, submitted photographs can cover any aspect of health but should illustrate one or several features of health systems (such as health care services, people, technology, health information, financing, regulation, education, governance or intersectoral cooperation).
Winning entries will be selected by professionals in the fields of photography and journalism, as well as experts in health systems from across the European Region and will receive a voucher for photographic equipment worth €500 (first prize), €250 (second prize) and €100 (third prize).
The photographs selected will be showcased at the Conference, through media releases and on the Regional Office web site.
Further information, including an online application form, is available at: www.euro.who.int/healthsystems2008/photo.
Queries can be addressed to:
Ms Faith Kilford
Conference Communications Officer
WHO Regional Office for Europe
Scherfigsvej 8, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
Tel.: +45 39 17 12 19
E-mail: healthsystems2008@euro.who.int
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