World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has backed President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's decision to raise salaries for medical workers in district primary healthcare services.
In a post on Facebook, the WHO chief said he highly valued the commitment to increasing the pay of 77,000 medical workers in the country and the effort to keep people's health and wellbeing at the heart of public policy.
Ghebreyesus said that investing in primary healthcare and supporting medical workers showed how political will and leadership could help improve the quality and accessibility of health services for everyone.
