Armenian family doctors, therapists and pediatricians are warning that their salaries are being deliberately reduced through administrative directives, according to physician and healthcare organizer Gevorg Grigoryan.

Grigoryan said video instructions have been circulated to polyclinics, directing staff to cancel patient visits in electronic records after consultations. The cancellations lower the number of reimbursable services reported to the state insurance fund, effectively cutting doctors’ pay.

“After seeing numerous patients each day, pediatricians and therapists are ordered to sit at the computer and cancel visits, forfeiting their income,” Grigoryan said on Friday, adding that the situation is deteriorating.