12:09, 08 December 2009 | GMT +5
About 10% of Kazakhstanis need hospitalization - Ministry of Healthcare
ASTANA. December 8. KAZINFORM /Serik Sabekov/ 10% of the 16 mln population of Kazakhstan only needs hospitalization, Kazinform cites Minister of Healthcare Zhaksylyk Doskaliyev who said at a briefing after the Government's sitting December 8.

"This is around 1.4 mln-1.5 mln people and this figure decreases year by year. This proves high quality of out-patient medical care", he noted.
According to Doskaliyev, one of the major tasks of implementation of the Unified National System of Healthcare is development of out-patient medical care though opening of out-patient clinics. "This system will allow to enhance each clinic's responsibility for its work and to raise the quality and diagnostic opportunities" he stressed.