{"id":987525594,"date":"2022-06-06T03:49:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T02:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/kazakhstan-expanded-screening-programs-for-children-in-an-effort-to-invest-into-prevention\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:24:16","slug":"kazakhstan-expanded-screening-programs-for-children-in-an-effort-to-invest-into-prevention","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/kazakhstan-expanded-screening-programs-for-children-in-an-effort-to-invest-into-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan expanded screening programs for children in an effort to invest into prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vyacheslav Dudnik, Vice Minister of Healthcare <\/strong>of Kazakhstan spoke at the Open Doors Event held by the Corporate Fund &#8220;University Medical Center&#8221; in capital city Nur-Sultan, dedicated to the <strong>International Children&#8217;s Day on<\/strong> <strong>June 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe greatest happiness of parents is to raise their child as a healthy, intelligent, and educated person, and the main goal of the State and the society is to educate a patriotic generation. Children are the future of the country. The stronger are our children, the stronger is our Kazakhstan,\u201d said the Vice Minister.<\/p>\n<p>As part of regulatory work, the Ministry has reviewed and updated the <strong>Standard for pediatric care provision,<\/strong> taking into account WHO recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry has launched several initiatives aimed at increasing coverage and improving the quality of <strong>screening programs <\/strong>for children:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A screening test for autism has been introduced for the first time;<\/li>\n<li>The number of equipped child development rooms in primary care organizations is being increased from 600 to 1500;<\/li>\n<li>A pilot project is launched on selective screening of newborns for 49 hereditary metabolic diseases;<\/li>\n<li>Audiological screening was supplemented by a new method to determine the exact location of auditory system damage;<\/li>\n<li>Additional equipment purchase for vision and hearing screening programs is under consideration, using public-private-partnership mechanisms.<\/li>\n<li>The list of free medicines and the Kazakhstan National Medicines Formulary were expanded with 17 additional names of medicines to treatm orphan and severe diseases in children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vice Minister Dudnik concluded that health protection of children has always been a priority for Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Source, photo credit and additional information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.kz\/memleket\/entities\/dsm\/press\/news\/details\/381689?lang=ru\">Ministry of Healthcare of Kazakhstan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vyacheslav Dudnik, Vice Minister of Healthcare of Kazakhstan spoke at the Open Doors Event held by the Corporate Fund &#8220;University Medical Center&#8221; in capital city Nur-Sultan, dedicated to the International Children&#8217;s Day on June 1. \u201cThe greatest happiness of parents is to raise their child as a healthy, intelligent, and educated person, and the main&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":987526976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[118,126,131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987525594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987526976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987525594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987525594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987525594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}