18.05.2022

Five perinatal Centres will be equipped in 2022 with modern hardware hypothermia systems to save newborn babies in intensive care units. The equipping of medical Centres in Taldykorgan, Uralsk, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Aktau and Shymkent was financed by the Samruk-Kazyna Trust Social Projects Development Foundation.

“As you know, in 2021, the Karaganda Perinatal Centre was equipped with modern equipment, and within a year, the lives and health of 11 newborn children were saved using this equipment. We consider this an excellent result, since every child’s life saved is extremely important for the future of our country. This year, we provided financial support for the purchase of equipment for 5 regions, where the most pressing issue is both the level of infant mortality and the provision of children’s intensive care units with advanced medical equipment. We hope that modern units will help doctors at these medical Centres save even more children’s lives. Overall, last year we implemented 32 large-scale social projects worth more than 7 billion tenge and provided assistance to more than half a million people,” notes Alfiya Adiyeva, General Director of the Samruk-Kazyna Trust Social Projects Development Foundation.

Medical Centres were selected based on several parameters: the number of cases of use of mechanical hypothermia (bags or medical gloves with cold water or ice) for asphyxia during childbirth and the absence of automatic hypothermia units. For this purpose, AYALA Foundation worked with all oblast health departments throughout 2021, officially collecting the information necessary to protect the project This resulted in a list of 22 perinatal Centres formed. The first seven, which account for the largest number of cases of mechanical hypothermia, will receive equipment in the 3rd quarter of this 2022.

“We are eternally grateful to our General Partner — the Samruk Kazyna Trust Foundation — for supporting our project and for the huge, very important contribution to preserving the intellectual potential of future generations of our country,” said Aidan Suleimenova, President of AYALA Charity Foundation.