ARMENIA’S AMBULATORY CARE SECTOR IN SEVERE NEED OF REFORMS

PanARMENIAN.Net
November 4, 2011 – 13:12 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Oxfam GB Armenia, jointly with the Economic
Development and Research Center (EDRC) have analyzed the impact of the
decrease in ambulatory care sector financing on Armenian population’s
level of health.

As the head of EDRC program Karine Harutyunyan told a news conference
in Yerevan, 2012 state budget envisages an AMD 5,3 mln cut in
ambulatory sector to comprise AMD 23,9 bln. In this context, Ms.

Harutyunyan noted a number of sectors in primary medical care to suffer
most as a result of cutting. “In their attempt to decrease expenses,
the authorities failed to consider the upsurge of prices reported in
healthcare sector,” the EDRC official stressed.

EDRC CEO Gagik Torosyan, in turn, noted that the government’s financing
helps little in increasing the quality of services at policlinics
and other ambulatory care facilities, leaving doctors unhappy with
low salaries, patients dissatisfied with treatment and the government
puzzled, seeing as means allocated render no results.

The CEO urged the government to work out an individual package of
social expenditures to resolve the issue.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress