Kazakhstan participated in CIS Healthcare Cooperation Council
ASTANA. KAZINFORM Kazakh delegation, led by 1st Deputy Healthcare and Social Development Minister of Kazakhstan Salidat Kairbekova, took part in the XXV session of the CIS Healthcare Cooperation Council, held in Minsk.
Those attending debated draft cooperation programs for diabetes diagnostics and treatment for 2016-2020, on medical insurance for migrant workers and their family members, supplies of medicines, healthcare products and medical equipment manufactured in the CIS member states, as well as a draft concept of coordinated efforts to combat cancer.
The CIS Healthcare Cooperation Council is one of the oldest cooperation bodies of the Commonwealth. It was founded in June 1992. The council consists of healthcare ministers and chief state medical officers of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine, the ministry's press service said.