Minister to answer questions about healthcare via G-Global online platform
ASTANA. February 14. KAZINFORM Healthcare Minister Salidat Kairbekova will answer questions about healthcare via the G-Global website throughout February, Kazinform has learnt from EECSA's press service.
To submit a question to Kairbekova, G-Global's Person of the Month for February, please register on the website, www.group-global.org . Your question - in Kazakh, Russian or English - and her answer will appear on the website.
G-Global's Person of the Month feature made its debut with the launch of an updated version of the portal in November 2012.
Readers of the feature will not only find information about the Person of the Month's background and current work, but will also have a chance to submit questions to him or her. It's another way that G-Global offers the world a chance to seek solutions to global problems.
Persons of the Month include politicians, government ministers, leaders of international organizations, top economists, academics and other experts.
Previous honorees have included Serik Nugerbekov, a member of Kazakhstan's Senate who is also co-chair of the Coordination Council of the Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists Association, and Vuk Jeremic, president of the United Nations General Assembly.
The Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists Association, or EECSA, is the main organizer of the annual Astana Economic Forum and runs the G-Global platform.
Judging by the questions submitted to Kairbekova on G-Global so far, the healthcare issues that are most on the minds of the public include health-center and hospital services, what is being done to improve the population's overall health, and what is being done to protect the public from unhealthy food.
About Salidat Kairbekova:
Salidat Kairbekova became Minister of Healthcare in 2010. Before that, she served as chair of the ministry's Medical Services Oversight Committee and Deputy Minister of Healthcare.
Kairbekova is a recipient of the Order of Kurmet, one of Kazakhstan's highest awards to civilians. It honors those who have made significant contributions to the country in economics, science, culture, education or social issues.
About G-Global:
President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced the G-Global initiative in late 2011. It is aimed at expanding the number of countries that collectively create policies that affect the world's economic and financial systems.
The Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists Association started the G-Global website in January 2012 to give experts and non-experts from around the world a place to discuss, and recommend solutions to, international economic, financial and other problems. The site has attracted users from 150 countries. A revised version of the G-Global portal was launched on November 1, 2012.