ARMENIAN TUBERCULOSIS SPECIALISTS DISPUTE TRANSFER OF CONSUMPTIVES TO REGIONAL POLYCLINICS

Arminfo
2007-04-20 12:31:00

The municipal Tuberculosis Prophylactic Center of Yerevan will be
reformed and the polyclinic’s tuberculosis specialists will receive the
consumptives in the district polyclinics of Yerevan, group of doctors
told ArmInfo about this fact, confirmed in the RA Health Ministry. The
doctors informed that the Tuberculosis Prophylactic Center, equipped
with the means and provided with the personnel and long experience,
necessary for diagnostics, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis,
will be finally reformed in June, 2007, while the tuberculosis
specialists will be distributed per the Yerevan polyclinics, which are
not yet provided with special cabinets and laboratory facilities for
diagnostics and treatment of tuberculosis. Almost all the polyclinics
are not able to assure the isolated receipt of consumptives because
of the absence of special rooms, that causes hazard of people’
s infection with tuberculosis in polyclinics.

Meanwhile, the country’s Health Ministry, overlooking this fact,
fixes new cases of infection with the Koch’s bacillus. The number of
consumptives in the capital and Armenia in general swiftly grows. In
view of this, the chief tuberculosis specialist of Yerevan, Mkrtich
Lazarian, and the chief tuberculosis specialist of the republic,
Marina Grigoryan, do not agree with the decision on reforming the
Tuberculosis Prophylactic Center. However, the opinion of specialists
is ignored by the Yerevan authorities, the Government and the RA
Health Ministry.