23.4% OF YEREVAN POPULATION REGISTERED AT HEALTHCARE PRIMARY LINK FROM
APRIL 1 TO JUNE 30

YEREVAN, JULY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. In the first six months of 2007, the
number of people’s visits to Yerevan polyclinics made 1m 137 thousand,
which has increased by 1.3% as compared with the same period of 2006.
Armen Soghoyan, the Head of the Healthcare and Social Security
Department of Yerevan Mayor’s office, said at the July 2 press
conference that 77,305 calls were registered at the Ambulance CJSC in
January-June. 6,434 children were born at Yerevan’s ten maternity
houses in the same period, which exceeds the same index of the previous
year by 0.2%.

A. Soghoyan said that 23.4% of Yerevan’s population has expressed a
willingness to apply to district therapeutists and pediatricians in the
healthcare primary link from April 1 to June 30. Until October 1 people
can be registered and choose their doctor and the institution where
they wish to receive medical aid. It was mentioned that a maximum of
2300 and a minimum of 1000 citizens can be registered with one doctor.