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Nazarbayev to be informed on situation on maternal and infant mortality

The President of Kazakhstan will be monthly informed on the situation on maternal and infant mortality rate in the Republic. The Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan, Zhaksylyk Doskaliev, informed at the session today, the agency reports.

Astana. December 18. Kazakhstan Today - The President of Kazakhstan will be monthly informed on the situation on maternal and infant mortality rate in the Republic. The Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan, Zhaksylyk Doskaliev, informed at the session today, the agency reports.

"We need to consider each case of maternal and infant death as an emergency and accept concrete measures and control the appropriate implementation of the legislation and the normative-legal acts regulating the issues of childhood and obstetric aid," Z. Doskaliev said.

"The main problems in these field are "poor health of women, high percent of cases of maternal death rate from avoidable reasons, high percent of avoidable reasons of infant mortality rate and insufficient material equipment and lack of doctors obstetricians-gynecologists, pediatricians in the obstetrical and children's organizations.

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