There is money for bonuses amounting to millions, is there no money for state orders? state order

While the Ministry of Health declares that there are no problems related to the state order, citizens continue to face problems when they arrive at the hospital with a serious health condition to be treated or receive appropriate medication within the framework of the state order, and suddenly hear the answer: “There is no money, wait.”

After hearing such an answer, the citizens are forced to raise money in order to pay and receive the necessary medical care. And those who do not have money, of course, should go home and live in harmony with their health problems, relying only on God, because “the state order is over, there is no money, they have to wait”.

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Garik Aghabekyan is one of those citizens who has already faced this problem several times, because one of his relatives was diagnosed with cancer.

“The man has breast cancer, the cancer must be treated within the framework of the state order, now he is receiving chemotherapy. He should receive the third chemotherapy next week, we paid for the first two chemotherapy treatments, we bought the medicine. The head of the hospital department says: “What can I do? We have to buy the medicine.”

We ask, “Isn’t it a state order?” He replies, “It is a state order, but there is no money, we have to buy the medicine.” I spoke with the director of the hospital, he said: “What should I do? The state should give, but the state does not give money.”

In the case of another citizen, maybe the prescribed medicine is more expensive or cheaper, I don’t know, but we buy the medicine every time for 145 thousand drams. Now, does every person have the opportunity to pay 145,000 drams, buy medicine in order to receive chemotherapy? What do you think?” 168.am–Garik Aghabekyan said in a conversation with

According to our interlocutor, they called the doctor for the third chemotherapy and received an answer that “it seems that there is no money this time.”

“This is also the state of our state order, it has been for ages that the state provides the treatment of cancer patients, the Ministry of Health should at least do this, and then go deal with the issues of pensioners… They still haven’t done one thing, they are doing another, and that too half-heartedly. That is why our healthcare sector is in this state,” added Professor Garik Aghabekyan.

Continuing, our interlocutor said that it is natural that within the framework of the state order, the patient is admitted to the hospital, laid in the ward, they do not pay a single penny for it, but they say to the same patient: “go and bring the medicine, the state should have given money, we also gave the medicine, but the state did not give money.”

“They say: I’m sorry, there is no medicine, we can’t connect you to the system. It turns out that a cancer patient comes home without treatment, which for him is equal to death: the disease develops, life is shortened. Now the Ministry of Health cares about the health of its citizens or not, it does not care,” added Garik Aghabekyan.

We also asked the professor: if there are claims that Ewing’s sarcoma malignant tumor is treated free of charge in Armenia, then why do our compatriots go to Germany to get treatment? Garik Aghabekyan answered: if it is already sarcoma, there should be a state order, now the question arises: why do Armenians leave Armenia for treatment?

“If they go, then there are some problems. We have good doctors, but there are some Armenians who say: ‘Let’s go to the USA or Europe, it will be fine.’ But if they buy, then either the medicine is not available, or there is another problem.  Maybe, following our example, others are told to pay for medicine. In other words, our healthcare system is in a bad state,” he emphasized.

According to Garik Aghabekyan, it is not realistic that the Ministry of Health will take steps after raising the issue, but he is not going to sit quietly and not raise the problems he has seen with his own eyes.

“It’s me, I don’t have those 145,000 drams. What am I going to do? I should tell my relative: it’s over, right?” The administrative situation of the hospitals is also very bad, as if they are holding a competition, appointing a person who has no experience as the head of the hospital, it is good, at least he is a doctor, maybe tomorrow or the next day they will remove this too, and say that it is not necessary for the head of the hospital to be a doctor,” emphasized Garik Aghabekyan.

It turns out that there are millions of reward money for the authorities of the day, but there is no state order money?

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