Kyrgyzstan Strengthening of primary health care services

- recommendations produced during the mission of the Kazak PHC Association are published and shared with national stakeholder and development partners
- assessment of existing statistical data at the health organization and central level
- development of a set of model indicators for performance analysis
- enhancing capacity for data analysis and planning of actions

Jointly with the WHO European PHC Center facilitated creation of the PHC Task Force as a driving force of reforms on wide spectrum of system components as well as a platform for open discussions of different topics and finding solutions for cross-cutting issues. PHC Task Force is assigned to deliver results against 9 ToRs namely (1) Revise the rules for enrollment of the population to PHC; (2) Revision of the legislative framework, regulations for PHC, including development of basic terms and definitions; (3) Revision of the SBP service package, PHC services package, assessment of compliance of providing SBP to the population at PHC level; (4) Regulations for PHC work organization (health profile, site passport, triage, mode and schedule of work, etc.); (5) Development and implementation of Referral system including standards, procedures and criteria for referring patients to other health care organizations for consultation of narrow specialists (outpatient type, specialized organizations), admission in secondary and tertiary levels hospitals, including the procedure for obtaining feedback from a family doctor, referral of women in labor and sick children, patients with acute CVD conditions; (6) Develop indicators for assessing activities, processes, outcomes at PHC level; (7) Implementation of e- medical patient record/card at PHC level, integrated into all levels of health care, for comprehensive patient management and delivery of integrated services; Implementation of modern information technologies (phone or online consultations, telemedicine, e- registration, recording, referral, referral of patients) in the activities of PHC HCOs to improve access and quality of services, as part of E-health development; (8) Costing of PHC services delivery, including SGBP; (9) Information and communication campaign to promote PHC. The final 2023 review of PHC Task Force accomplishment across the 9 ToRs conducted on 22 November 2023 identified significant progress and results in some areas as approval of quality measurement indictors for PHC, increase amount of nurses from 1 to 2 approval of Law “On the protection of health of citizens in the Kyrgyz Republic": This is fundamental law in healthcare, replacing the 10 sectoral laws eliminating duplications, fragmentations, contradictions and outdated norms; sets the objectives and principles, regulatory framework, legal relations, norms and mechanism for their implementation; introduced new modern concepts have been introduced: digital health, maternal and child health, infectious and non-communicable diseases; and stipulates rights and obligations of citizens in the field of health protection.