BELOW 7 YEARS OLD CHILDREN AS WELL TO MAKE USE OF PRIVILEGES OF GETTING FREE AND AT A DISCOUNT MEDICINE IN 2007

Noyan Tapan
Feb 19 2007

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 19, NOYAN TAPAN. Medical assistance of 15 bln 581 mln
drams (about 4.3 mln U.S. dollars) will be implemented in 2007 within
the framework of the state order by all the health care organizations
of Yerevan. It is 13.7% more compared with the previous year. As Armen
Soghomonian, the Chief of the Yerevan Mayor’s Office Health Care and
Social Insurance Department stated at the February 19 press conference,
medical assistance of 6 bln 152 mln drams will be implemented within
the framework of the state order this year by institutions subject to
the Mayor’s Office. It is 15.2% more as compared with the previous
year. He mentioned that paid services of 2 bln 409 mln drams were
implemented in 2006 by the same health care organizations, what is 3.4%
more as compared with the previous year. It was also mentioned that 168
436 citizens got medical assistance in the stationary system of Yerevan
in 2006, what is 7% more as compared with the previous year. 184 927
calls were registered in the Ambulance Service CJSC of Yerevan, what
is 5% more than the index of the previous year. 14304 children were
born in the 10 maternity hospitals of the capital, instead of 13960 of
2005: the growth makes 2.5%. In 2006 the number of the population’s
visits to polyclinic added 29.1% as compared with the previous year,
the number of laboratory-instrumental researches added 35%.

In A.Soghomonian’s words, allocation of free and at a acount medicine
is in process. Below 7 years old children will also make use of it
this year. In his words, the number of people getting medicine with
such conditions grew 20% in 2006, compared with the previous year. The
department chief once more reminded that, according to the order,
only medicine prescribed by a doctor is freely given to citizens.