FOR USING OUT-PATIENT SERVICES FREE OF CHARGE CITIZENS SHOULD BE REGISTERED IN PRIMARY HEALTH PROTECTION SYSTEM BY END OF YEAR

Noyan Tapan
Apr 16 2007

TSAKHKADOZOR, APRIL 16, NOYAN TAPAN. Activities aimed at introduction
of system of population’s registration started in Armenian primary
health protection system from April 1. Thanks to this each citizen
will have a possibility to choose his primary health protection
doctor. Within the framework of the new system residents can be
registered at family doctors, therapeutists and under-aged people
at pediatricians.

As Gayane Gharagebakian, head of team of Health Reforming and
Population’s Registration of RA Ministry of Health, reported at the
April 13 seminar in Tsakhkadzor, unless the citizens are registered
by the end of the year, they will be deprived of the possibility of
receiving free out-patient services. In her words, the system will
be introduced stage by stage: from April 1 to October 1 a resident
will choose his primary health protection doctor from the medical
institution where he is served at present and from October 1 he can
change his doctor twice a year if he wishes.

Ruzanna Yuzbashian, Head of Primary Medical Assistance Department of
the Ministry, said that sums allocated from state budget to the primary
health protection system increase year by year. Thus, 9.3 bln drams
was allocated in 2005, while 16.726 bln drams (nearly 46.5 mln USD)
was allocated in 2007.