Scientific Center of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery is one of the oldest institutions in Kazakhstan, which opened November 28, 1932 by the decision of the Central Executive Committee of the CPC and KazASSR as the Research Institute for Maternal and infant.

Since its foundation, the institute was headed by leading experts and organizers of health care - At the head of the Institute since its establishment were leading experts and policy makers - T.S.Lebedinskaya (. 1932-1934) Yu.A.Bagdanovich (1935-1939) G.G.Makovskaya and F.A. Kurgansk (1935-1939) N.N.Gryunberg (1939-1941) A.I.Rozanova (1941-1943.), Professor I.L.Stychinsky (1944-1947) A.I.Avenirova (1948-1951) H.E.Murzalieva (1951-1959) A.B.Bisenova (1959-1980), Academician K.S.Ormantaev (1980-1985 and 1993-2001), A .K.Mashkeev (1986-1992gg.) K.A.Mazhibaev (2001-2005.) S.A.Dikanbaeva (2005-2008.) E.A.Ayazbekov (2008-2011.), S.G .Nukusheva (2011-2014). Since February 2014 Director of the Scientific Center of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery is Ph.D. R.Z. Boranbayeva Institute since the beginning of the formation has an active research and organizational and methodological work on the creation and establishment of maternal and child health services in Kazakhstan. Expeditions of “red yurts” are organized in remote areas of the republic, where the first nurseries and “maternity houses” are created. Employees of the Institute obtained the first scientific and statistical data on the health status of women and children in Kazakhstan. One of the acute problems facing the institute in the thirties was the fight against "summer children's diarrhea" - the main cause of infant mortality. The leading role in the activities of the institute was occupied by the training of medical personnel for a rapidly expanding network of institutions for the protection of motherhood and childhood: regional instructors for the protection of motherhood and childhood, midwives, visiting nurses and nursery workers. Researchers at the institute of those years were studying the structure of child morbidity and mortality in Kazakhstan, developing issues of prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, pneumonia and upbringing of young children, studying the physical development of children.

During the war and post-war years and during the development of virgin lands of the Institute activity was entirely subordinated to the solution of urgent problems of maternal and child health, nominated by the harsh conditions of the time.

Scientific studies were devoted to the prevention and elimination of intestinal infections, pneumonia, rheumatism, rickets, the elimination of polio, tuberculosis meningitis, and reduction of stillbirth, maternal and infant mortality.

In 1972, by decree of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR, the institute was renamed the Scientific Research Institute of Pediatrics of the Ministry of Health of the Kazakh SSR. The obstetric-gynecological department was assigned to an independent Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Set up baby food divisions and social pediatrics. The number of beds increased to 200.

The reorganization has allowed significantly expand the range of issues under study; improve the quality of the research, to strengthen the work on the preparation on the basis of the Institute of qualified personnel.

By the beginning of the 80s, more than 70 Ph.D. and 4 doctoral dissertations had been defended by the institute staff.

For great achievements in the field of child health, on January 6, 1983, the Institute was the first among institutes to be awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples.

In 1994, the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 672 of the Research Institute of Pediatrics was reorganized into the Scientific Center of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In 1992, a specialized council for defending candidate and doctoral dissertations was organized at the Institute; since 1993, theses have been defended in pediatric surgery. A total of 52 doctoral and 269 PhD theses were defended.

Since 1995, the National Scientific and Practical Journal "Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery ", founded by Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan K.S. Ormantayev, has been published by the Scientific Center for Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the NGO "Union of Pediatricians" of Kazakhstan. As the first professional publication for children's doctors in the country, the journal became for them an accessible information source of new knowledge, a current chronicle reflecting the content and dynamics of the development of science in the field of pediatrics and pediatric surgery, as well as the problems of developing children's health in Kazakhstan.

In 2002, by the order of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Scientific Center for Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan established the head methodical, scientific, practical and advisory center for the republic's pediatric service, including pediatric surgery.

At present, Scientific center of pediatrics and children's surgery are a large pediatric multi-disciplinary scientific and clinical center, with a powerful material and technical base and highly qualified specialists, with the possibility of providing medical care on the latest innovative technologies in the field of pediatrics and pediatric surgery. It has 810 employees, 142 doctors and researchers, including 1 academician, 12 doctors of medical sciences and 27 candidates of medical sciences. The main activities of the Scientific center of pediatrics and children's surgery are: research and development activities, the provision of highly specialized medical care to the child population, the introduction of innovative technologies, organizational and methodological work, and the training of doctors and scientific personnel.

Research work in different years headed N.A.Barlybaeva, A.K.Mashkeev, B.Zh.Tastanbekov, K.O.Omarova, A.S.Tynybekov, AS Ayubayev, Z.D. Dushimova, M.N.Sharipova. Currently, the position of deputy director for science and postgraduate education is held by Ph.D. G.I. Sarsenbaeva.

The center has its own clinic for 285 beds, which are treated annually for more than six thousand children from all regions of Kazakhstan aged from 1 day to 18 years. This service headed A.T.Krylova, G.A.Safina, S.I.Buribaeva, Zh.K.Sekenova, I.P.Morozova, R.Z.Boranbaeva, A.S.Imambetova, A.B.Sheynberg . Today, this responsible section is headed by deputy directors of pediatrics, Ph.D. G.K.Abdilova and Surgery MD K.E. Khairov.

An important activity of the Center is strategic development and economics. It is headed by MD Zh.B. Sauranbayeva, First Deputy Director for Strategic Development and Economics.

The Scientific Center for Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery has 25 departments: admission department, pediatric oncology department (3), hematology department for young children, hematology department for older children, day hospital department, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation department, surgery department, urology department with operative andrology, cardiac surgery department with interventional cardiology, neonatology and neonatal surgery department, complex somatic department pathologies with rehabilitation, cardiorheumatology department, pulmonology department, functional diagnostics department, radiology and ultrasound department, endoscopy sector, clinical and diagnostic department, clinical diagnostic laboratory, surgery unit. There are also 4 resuscitation and intensive care departments for various profiles and a highly equipped modern laboratory for apheresis and control of hematopoietic stem cells with a department for transfusiology.

The most complete satisfaction of the population's health needs on the basis of the right of free choice of doctor carries out consulting and diagnostic department.

The Scientific Center of Pediatrics and Surgery is a clinical and educational base for many clinical departments of the KazNMU named after S.D. Asfendiyarov, postgraduate training and refresher courses for doctors. On the basis of the NCPHC, retraining and advanced training courses are conducted in pediatric oncology and hematology, cardiology and rheumatology, neonatology and intensive care of newborns, pediatric pulmonology, current problems of pediatrics, laboratory work. The center conducts training on-site diagnostics of oncological and hematologic diseases, pediatric pulmonology, neonatology and intensive care of newborns, pediatric cardiology, and pediatric rheumatology, gastrointestinal diseases, cardiac surgery, and selected issues of radiation diagnosis in all regions of the country. Also, on the basis of the scientific center of pediatrics and children's surgery, residents are trained in the specialty “Pediatrics” and “Pediatric Surgery”.

With the introduction of interventional cardiac surgery, enable operations with minimal injuries, improved results of the intervention increased the duration and quality of life, reduction of disability children.

New information technologies are widely used in medical care - over the years, telemedicine opportunities have been used successfully, allowing clinic specialists to hold teleconferences with medical institutions in our country and abroad, to remotely participate in counseling patients, to organize television broadcasts in the framework of advanced training programs for doctors from the regions. The growth of budget financing makes it possible to significantly improve not only the material and technical base, but also to train specialists abroad, to introduce high technologies for diagnosing and treating complex pathologies.