Switzerland supports medical education reforms in Kyrgyzstan

Local news, 23.09.2021

Switzerland will provide 220 million soms for the professional development of medical personnel and therefore the quality of care received by patients in the country.

Signing of the agreement © Swiss Embassy Bishkek, 2021

 

On 23 September 2021, the Minister of Health and Social Development of the Kyrgyz Republic, Mr.Alymkadyr Beishenaliev, and the Ambassador of Switzerland to the Kyrgyz Republic, Mr.Olivier Bangerter, signed the agreement for the third phase of the Medical Education Reforms project.

Switzerland will allocate CHF 2.4 million (KGS 220 million) to continue improving professional development of medical personnel. The Ministry of Health and Social Development will continue supporting the project in its activities at all levels.

Thanks to this Swiss project, more than 14’000 practicing doctors, 25’000 practicing nurses, 6’000 residents and 7’000 nurse students will improve their knowledge. The project will also help to strengthen professional medical associations, modernize nursing education and establish an independent competency assessment centre.

Since 2013, the Government of Switzerland has been financing the Medical Education Reforms project with the technical support of the Geneva University Hospitals in collaboration with a local implementing partner “Initiatives in Medical Education”. 

 

For more details on the project, please contact: Gulzat Orozalieva,

tel.: (0552) 701082, (0312) 398296,  email: ime@ime.org.kg

 

Local news, 26.02.2021

In February more than 170 senior health managers of primary healthcare facilities, district- and oblast-level hospitals and tuberculosis centers from Osh, Jalal-Abad, Chui, Talas, Issyk-Kul, Naryn oblasts and Bishkek were trained on “Health Facilities Management in crisis situations: COVID-19”.

Training for health managers © Swiss Embassy Bishkek, 2021

Trainings were conducted by the Health Management Strengthening Project, which is designed and financed by the Government of Switzerland and implemented by Euro Health Group and the Public Foundation “Health System Initiatives”.

The Swiss development Cooperation allocated CHF 2 million for the project to support continuous education and regulation of the health management system in Kyrgyzstan.

The purpose of the training was to prepare health facilities for a timely and coordinated response in case of disease outbreaks. Health managers learned how to use efficiently available financial and human resources while ensuring continuity of provision of medical services for other diseases.

“Thanks to this training we learned a lot. Before we worked by trial and error without any evidence base”, - said Zamira Oruntaeva, Director of Family Medicine Center of Jalal-Abad oblast. “If this training had been done earlier, we could have prevented our staff to be infected with COVID-19”.

The training allowed to discuss challenges faced by health facilities during the first and second waves of COVID-19 and to prepare strategies to improve management of next wave.