Armenian PM instructs Health Ministry to combat shadow economy
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August 25, 2012 | 15:34
YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Premier Tigran Sargsyan chaired a consultation
meeting devoted to the country’s healthcare sector.
`We need to understand as to why the economic growth in this sector
reduced by 4.4 percent, as compared with the same time period last
year, even though we took very serious measures in the healthcare
sector. I believe there is one explanation here: shadow [economy] has
grown,’ PM Sargsyan specifically noted, the Government press service
informs.
The PM instructed Health Minister Derenik Dumanyan to launch a
monitoring system within his ministry, and to demand respective
monthly reports from Armenia’s 466 medical facilities.
In his turn, State Revenue Committee Chairman Gagik Khachatryan
proposed to carry out, jointly with the Health Ministry, precise
programs to combat shadow economy.
Also, the PM stressed that the results of inspections at the medical
facilities will be finalized in September, and he called upon the
Health Minister to implement urgent personnel changes in case of
facing any obstacles.
From: A. Papazian
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