IT IS ENVISAGED TO RAISE SALARIES OF FIRST AID STATE-OWNED CJSC’S DOCTORS AND NURSES BY ABOUT 25% IN 2007

Noyan Tapan
Dec 13 2006

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 13, NOYAN TAPAN. In the 10 months of 2006, the First
Aid CJSC of Yerevan Mayor’s Office has registered 141.9 thousand calls,
which exceeds the index of the same period of previous year by 10
thousand. As company Director Artyom Petrosian said in his interview
to Noyan Tapan correspondent, the increase of the number of calls is
conditioned by not sickness rate, but mainly by growth of the number
of Yerevan’s population. In his words, 37 ambulance brigades provide
first aid to Yerevan residents every day, including professional
pediatrics, psychiatrical and other aid. In total, the company has 45
cars, 6 out of which have been purchased this year. The latters are new
Sobol cars, which, in A.Petrosian’s words, are intended for big cities.

Besides, the Furst Aid stopped exploitation of old Yeraz and
Raf cars in November this year. "As currently the company has no
problem of leading the doctor to patient’s house, so activities
aimed at raising the quality of rendered medical services will be
done soon," A.Petrosian said. In this respect in 2007 the company
plans to purchase two new cars with new medical equipments from Nizhni
Novgorod’s Lingas trade and industrial company. A.Petrosian said that
allocations given from state budget to the Armenian first aid system
grow year by year. Thus, in 2006 this sum amounted to 1 bln 132 mln
452 thousand drams (about 3 mln USD), while in 2007 it is envisaged
to allocate about 1 bln 277 mln 880 thousand drams. He said that
increase of allocations from the state budget will enable next year
to raise the salaries of doctors and nurses by about 25%. Currently
their average salary makes about 32000 and 26000 drams, respectively.