Health Minister Akmaral Alnazarova announced the amount of funding required to increase salaries for primary care specialists. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Sputnik Kazakhstan.
By presidential order, starting January 1, 2027, differentiated additional payments will be established for primary care specialists. Additional payments of up to 40 percent will be paid depending on continuous work experience and psycho-emotional workload.
"This measure will cover more than 77,000 medical workers. The additional need for 2027-2029 will be about 137 billion tenge annually, including 34 billion tenge from the republican budget and 103 billion tenge from mandatory social health insurance," Alnazarova said at today's government meeting.
The amounts of additional payments:
- 0120 percent of the official salary for continuous work experience of more than 2 years;
- 0230 percent for experience of more than 3 years;
- 0350 percent for experience of more than 5 years.
Thus, after the introduction of additional payments for continuous work experience, the salaries of general practitioners with the longest experience in rural areas, taking into account the additional payment, may reach 760,000 tenge, and in cities – 607,000 tenge.