The Services of Ambulatory-Polyclinic System Will Always Be Free

THE SERVICES OF AMBULATORY-POLYCLINIC SYSTEM WILL ALWAYS BE FREE

Yerevan, April 7, ArmInfo. The services of the ambulatory-polyclinic
system of Armenia will always be free for all categories of citizens,
said Minister for Healthcare Norayr Davidian.

Over the last 15 years the healthcare services were chargeable for
everybody except the indigent. Since the beginning of 2006 these
services have become free. In order to provide free ambulatory
treatment at the polyclinics additional AMD 7 billion (about $14
million) was granted by Government. Minister Norayr Davidian also
informed that last year the polyclinics of Armenia were visited 6,635
million times by the citizens.

The state budget 2006 assigns AMD 39,1 billion to healthcare against
32,9 in 2005. The polyclinics receive the major part – AMD 14,3 billon
of all the financing, 24,7% more than last year.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS