A Nation of Healthy Children
Priority aspects and modernization of children’s healthcare system have been addressed at the 7th Congress of Pediatricians of Uzbekistan in the Turkiston Palace.
Priority aspects and modernization of children’s healthcare system have been addressed at the 7th Congress of Pediatricians of Uzbekistan in the Turkiston Palace.The event is organized by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the National Specialized Research and Applied Medical Center of Pediatrics, the Tashkent Pediatrics Medical Institute and the Association of Pediatricians of Uzbekistan. Senators, members of the lower house of parliament, officials of ministries and other government agencies, social organizations of our country are attending the occasion, along with guests from the United States, Germany, South Korea, Austria, Poland, India, Russia, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and international institutions.
Speaking at the congress, the head of World Health Organization country office in Uzbekistan A.Hammerich, chief of Children’s Fund – UNICEF office in our country R.Fuderic and others stressed that protecting the interests and rights of children, securing the birth and growth of healthy child in the family and a comprehensively advanced generation are priority directions of reforms spearheaded in Uzbekistan under the leadership of President Islam Karimov.
A solid normative mechanism is created in our country to implement measures on this front. Uzbekistan ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and a number of international legal documents.
Foundation has been laid for an effective system of transforming the healthcare sphere and for provision of all strata of population, children in particular, with medical aid meeting world standards. During the steadfast introduction of targeted program “Healthy Mother – Healthy Child”, wide-ranging works are undertaken in cooperation with public and social organizations.
Efforts to secure emergency and specialized medical assistance for children are being streamlined in our country at the level of international standards. Rather effective on this front have been the endeavors of the pediatric complex at the National Research Center of Emergency Medical Aid and the National Specialized Research and Applied Medical Center of Pediatrics. Advanced medical equipment and technologies are smartly employed in these healthcare institutions during diagnosis and treatment. Provincial branches of these therapeutic entities allow for extensive coverage of children with qualified medical aid.
As a result of measures to perfect the pediatric service and to safeguard the health of the younger generation, the child mortality rate in our country has decreased sharply, and the spread of infectious diseases is effectively prevented. Owing to the execution of tasks outlined in the national screening program “Mother-Child”, birth of children with hereditary and congenital diseases has reduced 1.8 times.
By personal development indicators, 92 percent of growing children in Uzbekistan currently meet the standards of the World Health Organization to a full extent. The index of practically healthy children has been rising in our country every year. It constitutes a practical confirmation of the principle “Healthy Mother – Healthy Child”.
As the head of our state points out, powerful is a country where children are healthy, and healthy are children who grow up in a powerful nation.
Uzbekistan’s achievements in the medical-social sphere are widely acknowledged in the international scale. That the World Health Organization recommended the National Model of Protection of Motherhood and Childhood in Uzbekistan as a model for advanced nations is a bright indicator of those accomplishments.
Works on this front have been enhancing steadily on the basis of the 1 August 2014 presidential resolution on the state program to boost the reproductive health of population, protect the health of mothers, children and teenagers in Uzbekistan for 2014-2018, and as part of the National Program “Year of Healthy Child”.
Projects are run to promote pediatrics. Notably, within the frameworks of the 2014 Investment Program, children’s diversified medical centers in Andijan, Bukhara, Kashkadarya, Samarkand and Tashkent regions as well as the surgery department of the Clinic Hospital of Tashkent Pediatrics Medical Institute have undergone reconstruction.
As a result of the wide-ranging modernization and beautification works carried out as part of the Investment Program, the National Specialized Research and Applied Medical Center of Pediatrics has also attained a new look. Built with an eye to contemporary requirements, the consultative-diagnostic polyclinic and treatment departments of the Center are outfitted with state-of-the-art technologies for diagnosis and treatment.
Wide-scale research and applied works are underway in the Center to grasp new methods of treatment in modern medical science. This has led to the introduction of cochlear implantation broadly applied in the world for children with dull hearing.
The dynamic advancement of healthcare has facilitated the growth in the birth of healthy children. Currently, the world medicine offers opportunities and capacities to fight for lives of children born five hundred grams in weight. Cutting-edge technologies of such dimension are effectively used in our medical practice, as well.
The use of low invasive methods when applying surgical interference is instrumental in the reanimation of child patients. The equipment of the National Specialized Research and Applied Medical Center of Pediatrics with latest machinery and hardware employed in this area and the introduction of new treatment methods facilitate a timely revelation of diseases and consolidation of health of children.
The forum participants highly appraised the achievements made by our country’s medical practice. They underscored that Uzbekistan is an active contributor to the global process along the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, and it has been succeeding in addressing the tasks that states were assigned with, and in outlined directions it has been leading across many indicators.
“I have worked in Uzbekistan since 2009,” said Professor Michael Leixering (Germany), head of department for pediatrics and teenager medicine of the Clinic of Ulma University. “The reforms undertaken in Uzbekistan’s healthcare system deserve enormous recognition – from the primary belt of the system up to the level of specialized centers. In today’s world, when even some developed countries are cutting the funds for medical-social sphere, in Uzbekistan you can observe the year-by-year growth in the moneys allocated for the healthcare system. Efforts to constantly uplift the knowledge and proficiency of doctors, especially the youth new in the medical sphere, speak of the bright future of Uzbekistan’s healthcare. This event is an excellent opportunity for joint consideration of pressing issues in pediatrics, popularization of novelties, identification of prospective tasks.”
“The activities of the National Specialized Research and Applied Medical Center of Pediatrics have left a huge impression on us,” says Alexei Ilchenko, manager of Austrian company Medel. “Provision of all types of modern pediatric services in a single location creates convenience for the population. Noteworthy is the fact that the complex has all the facilities for the conduct of high technology medical procedures practiced in leading clinics of the world. Notably, modern conditions are created for cochlear implantation among children with dull hearing. Our company specializes in the production of medical technologies employed in that process. Our partnership with Uzbekistan’s physicians on this front will facilitate the multiplication of achievements in medical science and solution of priority issues in pediatrics.”
As part of the forum, academics of our country and specialists from abroad exchanged views on pressing issues in pediatrics, demonstrative low invasive surgeries were organized relating to modern approaches to the treatment of diseases with ears, throat and nose by means of surgery.
An exhibition was presented to display Uzbekistan’s accomplishments in healthcare, aspects of the mother-and-child health protection system, and a documentary was demonstrated. That was followed by a gala concert with celebrity singers and the creative youth.
Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan A.Ikramov delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the event.