NUMBER OF POLYCLINIC VISITS GROWS IN YEREVAN IN JANUARY-NOVEMBER

Noyan Tapan
Dec 19 2006

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 19, NOYAN TAPAN. In January-November 2006, the
number of visits to Yerevan polyclinics made 1 million 664 thousand,
exceeding by 29.1% the index of the same period of last year. Armen
Soghoyan, Head of the Health and Social Security Department of
Yerevan Mayor’s office, stated this during the December 18 press
conference. According to him, in the 11 months of this year, the number
of visits to family practitioners increased by 25%, to pediatricians –
by 20%, and to narrow specialists – by 47.7%. The number of laboratory
examinations grew by 40.6% in the indicated period on the same months
of 2005. A. Soghoyan said that provision of free medicines to the
city population is continuing: medicines of 280 mln drams (about
700 thousand USD) were provided in January-November 2006. The number
of births in Yerevan grew by 3% in the eleven months of 2006 on the
same period of last year and made 13,181, while mortality declined by
7.7%. A. Soghoyan announced that starting January 1, 2007, citizens
may choose doctors and medical institutions, whose medical aid they
prefer to receive. 2,300 citizens may be registered to receive services
of a doctor. It was noted that 148 family doctors and 11 nurses have
already undergone training under the World Bank credit program.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress