Estimate Medical Employees’ Work Demanding Qualitative Care

NKR Government Information and Public Relations Department
October 21, 2008

Today, the NKR Prime Minister Ara Haroutyunyan has met with responsible
personnel of the health care sphere of the Republic. The Prime Minister
declared that it is foreseen to increase financial allotments to
the sphere from the NKR State Budget 2009 by 400 mln drams, which
will be completely aimed at increase of the salaries of the sphere’s
employees salaries on average 30 percent. The aim of the meeting was
to hear out opinions and proposals of the participants according to
whose calculations the Government will adopt appropriate resolution.

Before exchange of views, the Prime Minister A.Haroutyunyan has
attracted the meeting participants’ attention at a number of important
facts and occurrences. As a whole, he has considered the proceeding
of the reforms in the sphere unsatisfactory. The circumstance of
death-rate increase in the Republic, when in Karabakh considerably more
state financing per a person than in Armenia and numerous European
countries is carried out, arises particular anxiety. According
to the Premier’s words, for the population’s health protection and
rehabilitation it is necessary to have a complex programme and to make
it a reality. "The Government continues to invest more means into the
sphere, but there no desirable results up today"- A.Haroutyunyan
noted. He has attached importance to parallel increase of the
sphere’s financing and the efficiency of the reforms conducted. Both
the Government and the population must be satisfied with the work of
the system, he emphasized. For realization of new purposeful policy
in the sphere of health care A.Haroutyunyan has assigned the leaders
of the system with a task to create a working group and to draft a
new programme for the sphere’s development on the basis of studies
and proposals.Priority will be given to increase of the health care
services and exclusion of negative occurrences.

A number of heads of the sphere’s establishments present at the
meeting spoke with their proposals and considerations.

The NKR Minister of Finance S.Tevosyan and the Minister of Health
Care A.Khachatryan were present during exchange of views.