Average salaries of doctors in Kazakhstan to reach more than $1,000 by 2025

AKIPRESS.COM - The average salaries of doctors of Kazakhstan will be 505,000 tenge ($1,311.29) by 2025, Minister of Health of Kazakhstan Elzhan Birtanov said today at the government session.
The Minister reported on the results achieved over the past period and the main directions of the new State program for 2020-2025.
For 3 years, about 513 billion tenge has been allocated for the implementation of the Densaulyq State Program. The main medical demographic indicators improved in the country, the average life expectancy reached 73 years.
Prime Minister Askar Mamin emphasized that within the framework of the new State program, a public health service will be modernized to form a commitment to a healthy lifestyle among the population.
"Measures will be taken to improve the quality of medical care, to complete the creation of a single digital healthcare space. To this end, financing of clinics and hospitals will be improved, based on stimulating the early detection of diseases," said Mamin.
The PM noted that in all regions the development of centers of the best practices of primary medical care will continue, where new technologies of medical services are being introduced.
In order to improve the status of health workers, a national health workforce system will be created.
"The salaries of doctors and nurses will increase on average by two times, measures of their social support will be strengthened, measures of professional responsibility will be increased. In general, the burden per doctor will decrease to OECD standards (1 doctor per 1,500 people)," said Mamin.
The prime minister stressed that the measures taken will improve the medical infrastructure in general, reduce the incidence rate and increase the average life expectancy of Kazakhstanis to 75 years in 2025.