MEASURES TAKEN IN DIRECTION OF MODERNIZATION OF MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND MAJOR REPAIRS OF TEN REGIONAL HOSPITALS TO START FROM OCTOBER TO NOVEMBER

Noyan Tapan
Jul 18 2007

YEREVAN, JULY 18, NOYAN TAPAN. Issues concerning the improvement of
the quality and availability of the medical service, as well as the
increase in productivity of expenditures of the means allocated by the
state budget for the health sphere were discussed during the working
meeting of Robert Kocharian, the RA President, and Haroutiun Kushkian,
the RA Health Minister, which was held on July 17.

The Health Minister introduced the results of the study made in June
for the purpose of making more exact the degree of the productivity of
management, personnel potential, availability of services, as well as
the quality of medical service and the conditions of regional medical
institutions. They will serve as bases for implementing investment
programs for the development of the health system jointly with the
World Bank in the regions.

H. Kushkian stated that the modernization process of medical equipment
and major repairs of ten regional hospitals will already start from
October to November.

Robert Kocharian has ordered the Health Minister to increase the
productivity of the expenditures of the means allocated to the health
system by the state budget, improve the quality and availability
of medical service, and speed up the process of optimalization. The
President mentioned that the optimalization will give an opportunity
to make the management system better, as a result of which the
economized financial means will be directed at the development of
medical institutions and the medical service for the socially insecure
stratum of the population.

According to the information provided to Noyan Tapan by the RA
President’s Press Office, issues connected with the improvement of
the legislation concerning the health system were also discussed
during this meeting.