13.3% YEAR-ON-YEAR RISE IN PRICES FOR MEDICAL SERVICES RECORDED IN ARMENIA IN JULY 2011
/ARKA/
August 2, 2011
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, August 2. /ARKA/. Prices for medical services in Armenia
rose 14.1% in July 2010, compared with December 2010 (13.3%
year-on-year increase), Gurgen Martirosyan, chief of the Armenian
National Statistical Service’s division in charge of international
data comparison, said Tuesday at a news conference. In July, compared
with June, they grew 0.6%.
According to statistical reports, 6.3% year-on-year inflation was
recorded in the country in July 2011. This inflation was mainly due
to 9.6% hike in food, alcohol and tobacco prices and 3.1% rise in
prices for nonfoods.
Prices for services climbed 2.3% in July 2011, compared with the same
month a year earlier.
From: Baghdasarian