NUMBER OF VISITS TO YEREVAN POLYCLINICS GROWS BY 7.2% IN JANUARY-NOVEMBER

Noyan Tapan
Dec 10 2007

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 10, NOYAN TAPAN. In January-November 2007, the
number of population’s visits to Yerevan polyclinics made 1m 785
thousand, which exceeds the index of the same period of the previous
year by 7.2%. Armen Soghoyan, the Head of the Healthcare and Social
Security Department of Yerevan Mayor’s Office, said at the December
10 press conference.

According to him, in the 11 months of this year, as compared with the
same period of 2006, the number of visits to district therapeutists
increased by 10%, to narrow specialists by 2.3%. The number of
laboratory instrumental examinations increased by 11.2% in the same
period. A. Soghoyan said that 117 314 citizens were given free of
charge medicines in January-November.

25 040 patients received medical service in the above mentioned months
in clinics within the jurisdiction of the Mayor’s Office. 14 704 out
of it was done within the framework of state order, which is more by
10%, as compared with the same period of the previous year. According
to A. Soghoyan, ambulance service calls decreased by 1.5%: 141 calls
were registered in January-November 2006, while this number amounted
to 139 329 in the same period of this year.

A. Soghoyan said that 78% Yerevan population has already chosen the
doctor of primary healthcare. And 344 family doctors and 205 nurses
have already passed retraining in Yerevan, within the framework of
the World Bank credit program.