Medical Center Hospital of the President’s Affairs Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan organized a press tour for journalists

The press tour for the mass media representatives at the Medical Center Hospital of the President’s Affairs Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan started from the operating room, where journalists were given the opportunity to work with robotic surgery simulators and try on the role of a CT and MRI lab technician. Over 5,000 surgeries are performed in the surgical unit each year. The unit is equipped with 11 operating rooms.

This year, the Treatment and Diagnostic Block started operating based on the Hospital that consist of Internal Medicine Departments: pulmonology, nephrology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, neurology, rheumatology, and cardiology. The building is equipped with the latest state-of-the-art medical equipment. For example, a high-precision CT scanner makes 640 slices per minute and allows almost every millimeter of tissue to be examined.

This will reduce examination time by several times, and the fast scanning speed will reduce the radiation dose load on the patient. This machine allows doubling the patient flow and increasing the number of patients to be examined. The next device, a mammography unit with tomosynthesis function (3D mammography) is successfully applied for better visualization of the smallest changes in the breast tissue. Its advantage is high accuracy of oncopathology diagnostics at the earliest stages.

A rehabilitation unit in a new section of the Hospital, where patients recover from strokes, heart attacks and surgical operations were shown to the journalists. The “Lokomat Pro” robotic complex for restoring walking skills with enhanced feedback functions here.  In cases of impaired motor function, therapy on the LokomatPro improves patients’ mobility.

The participants of the press tour talked with patients during a visit to the Hospital’s new building. Most patients receive treatment as part of statutory free medical assistance. The Hospital’s services are also available to Kazakhstanis both under Compulsory Social Health Insurance and on a paid basis.