BAKOU, Azerbaijan, 18 August
By Nargiz Sadikhova – Trend:
Kazakhstan is committed to ensuring a comprehensive reaction to COVID-19, said Caroline Clarinval, director of WHO Country in Kazakhstan at Trend.
Clarinval said that since the onset of the COVID crisis, WHO has issued technical rules and steering notes to respond to the epidemic and conduct essential fitness services, adding a set of country-specific movements at the national, regional and local levels.
These rules cover nine spaces and include: governance mechanisms, identity of context-appropriate services, control of patient flow, redistribution and education of employee capacity in terms of physical fitness, adjustment of service delivery, maintenance of drug and supply availability, relief of monetary barriers, improved threat communication and network participation. Fixing and strengthening data systems,” he said.
Clarinval said Kazakhstan has actively participated in the nine painting spaces describing WHO’s reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak.
“For example, in parallel with the appropriate fitness measures for the public and a vigilant decision-making formula, Kazakhstan has also invested in the capacity of hospitals, reorienting some of them, and building new fitness services that perform a fundamental role in the remedy and adventure of COVID -19 patients. The formula for surveillance of public fitness was adjusted, responses of virtual detection of cases were applied. The capacity of the laboratories was increased rapidly. The mechanism of emergency reaction from the entire government, showing the abundant efforts that the country has made to combat COVID-19, “said Clarinval.
He noted that WHO had noted that since the onset of this crisis, Kazakhstan had tested how other countries are responding and took advantage of its window of opportunity and assimilated global practices and lessons learned to be better prepared.
Referring to WHO recommendations to combat the spread of COVID-19, Clarinval noted that there was no one-way solution, however, WHO made recommendations to ministries of health, adding to Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Health.
“This knowledge-sharing technique is also an opportunity to talk about the most productive practices and adjust popular operational protocols to the national context. We see that the country is committed to ensuring a comprehensive response, whether in organizing patient remedy and in personal fitness support concerned in combat opposing the COVID-19 epidemic,” he said.
Clarinval added that from the beginning, Kazakhstan used the tactics of active testing, adding the aptitude test.
“Active case studies and detection have been successful: 81 consistent with the percentage of all cases have been known through active case search. Up to 30,000 tests are conducted each day. There are two essential elements to combat the Pandemic well: leaders will have to act and citizens will have to take new action,” Clarinval said.
Clarinval added that for maximum regions, although traffic restrictions will be eased, fitness measures for the general public and social estating will be maintained.
“In this regard, we continue to insist on compliance with the main recommendations of the national fitness government and WHO to break the chain of transmission and prevent the spread of the virus among the population,” he concluded.
The first two cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Kazakhstan among those who arrived in Almaty from Germany on March 13, 2020.
The total number of coronavirus cases shown in Kazakhstan since the virus was first shown in the country amounted to 103,300 cases, including another 84,445 people who have recovered from the coronavirus and 1,415 deceased patients.
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