[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!” _builder_version=”4.19.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!” _builder_version=”4.19.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – SUMMARY – Click on the WHEEL icon to open the textarea where you can paste or type your summary. Summary should be in bold and 250-300 characters. The counter at the bottom can help.” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||20px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Rural health care was one of Ministry of Healthcare\u2019s priorities in 2023 in Kazakhstan. The Social Health Insurance Fund summarized its spending in 2023 and reported <\/strong>that 600 billion tenge, or 24% of its overall budget of <\/strong>2.5 trillion tenge<\/strong> for health services covered services provided in rural areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – TEXT OF THE NEWS – Click on the WHEEL icon to open the textarea where you can paste or type your news. PLEASE USE ONLY THE FEATURED IMAGE FUNCTION on your right column to add the image.” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n In Kazakhstan<\/a>, 38% of the population lives in rural areas<\/a>. Historically, residents in rural areas did not always have good access to health care and had to travel hundreds of kilometers to access any health care or to get specialized health care.<\/p>\n The Semashko model<\/strong> of a health care system, inherited by Kazakhstan from the Soviet Union, had laid the good foundation to maximize geographically accessible network of heath care providers in rural areas, described below:<\/p>\n Such an approach to organize health care in rural areas since the Soviet times has been beneficial <\/strong>for scarcely populated countries like Kazakhstan, which is the ninth largest country in the world with vast territories that make it harder to concentrate health care resources in some areas.<\/p>\n According to the recent news by the SHIF of Kazakhstan, rural health care organizations received about 600 billion tenge <\/strong>for medical services provided in 2023. The funds reimbursed comprehensive primary health care, consultative and diagnostic care, free outpatient drugs, medical rehabilitation, and treatment in rural hospitals (\u201cdistrict hospitals\u201d).<\/p>\n In addition to these funds, 700 thousand rural residents received health care services in urban locations (in urban hospitals) that were worth 213 billion tenge,<\/strong> or another 8.5%<\/strong> of the entire health care services budget paid by the single payer SHIF. These services received by rural residents in cities also included “high-tech medical care” worth 21 billion tenge<\/strong> (tertiary and quaternary level, resource-intensive specialized care).<\/p>\n According to SHIF, outpatient visits to primary care polyclinics in rural areas have increased by 15%<\/strong> in 2023 compared to previous year, totaling 53 million visits by 7.7 million rural residents.<\/p>\n In addition, the SHIF reported how much it spent on CT and MRI services which became more accessible as part of mandatory social health insurance benefits package, as well as other types of services specific to the rural areas: such as remote (virtual) consultations and mobile medical units \u2014 trains and trucks equipped with medical technology and staff intended to travel and cover areas that otherwise would have limited access to healthcare. The Social Health Insurance Fund summarized<\/a>\u00a0that 600 billion tenge, or 24% of its overall budget of 2.5 trillion tenge<\/a> in 2023 covered health services provided in rural areas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rural health care was one of Ministry of Healthcare\u2019s priorities in 2023 in Kazakhstan. 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