Today medical tourism is activel Patients from foreign countries are increasingly choosing Kazakh hospitals for treatment. One such facility is the Medical Centre Hospital of the President’s Affairs Administration of Kazakhstan. Every year the hospital implements innovative projects and extends the range of its services. Since the beginning of this year, 13 new medical technologies, both treatment and diagnostic, have been introduced there.
People from all over Kazakhstan come here to learn their diagnosis and undergo a full body check-up, as well as for many other purposes. Residents of Germany, the US, the UK, and other foreign countries have already become patients of the recently opened diagnostic and treatment unit of the hospital. The equipment, which has no equivalent in the CIS, is designed for high-precision diagnostics of diseases.
“Medical tourism is well developed in our country, that is, the citizens from other states come here for examination, diagnostics and treatment. We thoroughly examine the brain, spinal cord, cervical thoracic lumbar spine, joints, as well as the abdominal cavity and other systems,” said Igor Berestyuk, senior doctor of the CT and MRI department at the Medical Centre Hospital of President’s Affairs Administration of Kazakhstan.
The modern diagnostic and treatment unit has a capacity of 200 beds, which will enable the hospital to treat twice as many patients, which is up to 8,000 people per year.
“We are interested in introducing the best international medical technologies. These are mainly the European countries and the U.S. Our main goal is to provide the population with quick access to innovations,” Andrey Avdeyev, head of the Center for Health Technology Assessment at the Medical Centre Hospital of President’s Affairs Administration, said.
Talgat Urazov is a surgeon with almost 20 years of experience. In addition to elective and emergency surgeries, he conducts training in laparoscopy using special robotic equipment for his colleagues in Astana every day. The same Italian device is installed in the operating room. Every week, seven or eight doctors improve their practical knowledge here.
“The surgeon works at a distance, that is he is not at the patient’s side. There are the surgical assistant and nurse, who stand next to the patient. A nurse changes the clamps and helps the doctor, who sits at a console and operates in 3D glasses. He has a very accurate and vivid picture displayed in 4K 3D monitors. It’s a step into the future,” Talgat Urazov, surgeon at the Medical Centre Hospital of President’s Affairs Administration, said.
It is worth noting that around 25 innovative technologies are introduced into the hospital's clinical practice every year. They have been successfully used in the treatment and diagnostics of patients.
