Free of Charge Heart Surgeries for the Socially Unprovided

FREE OF CHARGE HEART SURGERIES FOR THE SOCIALLY UNPROVIDED

AZG Armenian Daily
17/08/2007

By the decision of RA Government, heart surgeries will be free of
charge for the members of those families, which have 36 and higher
points of vulnerability, registered in the Vulnerability Estimation
System.

According to Ruslana Gevorgian, the Advisor of RA Minister of Health,
this year the Government has allocated 170 million drams (about 500
thousand U.S. dollars) for performing the heart surgeries of 110
patients, Noyan Tapan Agency informs.

Ruslana Gevorgian mentioned that patients could turn to any hospital
performing heart surgeries, where after checking the authenticity
of the documents introduced by the patient, the specially formed
commissions would make a decision on performing a surgery.